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PUBIICATIONS 



,8UKTEES SOCIETY 

E9FABLISHBD IN THE TKAB 
M.DCCC.XXXIT. 




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DEPOSITIONS 



AND OTHBS 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS 



FKOM THE 



COURTS OF DURHAM, 



EXTENDING FROM 1311 TO THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH. 



LONDON: 

J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, PARLIAMENT STREET ; 
WILLIAM PICKERING, PICCADILLY ; 

EDINBURGH : 

LAING AND FORBES. 



At a Mebtino of the Council of the Surtkbb Socibty 
on the 23rd June^ 1845^ 

ResoliVED, That a Sblkction prom thb Ecclbsiabtical 
Procebdinqs upon record in the Courts op Durham 
be printed for the Society, for the year 1846^ under the editor- 
ship of the Secretary, on the usual terms. 

At a Meeting of the Council of the Surtees Society 
on the 23rd Nov. 1847, 

Resolved, That the volume of Ecclesiastical Proceed- 
ings be appropriated to the year 1845. 

James Rainb, Secretary. 



357491 



PREFACE. 



THIS volume consists of Extracts of Ecclesiastical 
Proceedings in the Courts of Durham on such subjects 
as come within the scope of this Society. 

The authorities, as far as p. 46, are sufficiently 
described. At p. 47 commences a course of reference 
by means of capital letters which require explanation. 

A. Old books in fragments, in the Registry of the 
Consistory Court. The first entry is headed ** Sessio 
in Galilea Ecclesise Cathedralis Dunelm/* Dominus is 
the judge of the court. 

B. The Book of Proceedings of a Commissary for the 
county of Northumberland, extending from 1561 to 
1571. 

C. Book of Depositions from 1565 to 1573. 

D. Book of Depositions from 1575 to 1576. 

E. Book of Depositions from 1572 to 1591. 

In addition to these authorities much use has been 
made of a book called in reference Swift's Book, con- 
sisting of the private book of Dr. Robert Swift, who 



VUl PREFACE. 

was Vicar-General and Official Principal of the diocese 
of Durham from 1561 to 1577- 

The heading of each suit and the description of each 
witness is given by the Editor in an English and 
abridged form. The mode adopted in the Depositions 
themselves may be seen in No. CCCXXXVII. p. 322. 
And it must further be observed, that the Editor has 
exercised his judgment in printing only such depositions 
or parts of depositions as appeared to him of interest. 
In some suits, where, perhaps, ten witnesses were ex- 
amined, he has contented himself with printing the 
deposition of only one. Neither has he deemed it ne- 
cessary to detail the result of the litigation which in 
most cases might have been obtained frt)m the Con- 
temporaneous Act Books. 

The depositions with respect to the Rebellion of 1569 
vrill form a most valuable addition to the interesting 
account of that most unfortunate affair, lately pub- 
lished with so much judgment by Sir C. Sharp. 



ERRATA. 

In p. IS6, for "Christopara" read « Christipara." 
„ 255, 1. 5, for « smyd" read " suyt.'' 



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DEPOSITIONS 



AlTD OTHBE 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 



I. LiTERA PfiNiTENTiARii. [Reg. KelUwe in Cane. Danelm. 

f. 24.] 
Venerabili in Christo Patri Dei gratia episcopo Dunelmensi, 
vel ejus Vicario in Spiritualibus^ frater Johannes de Eggesclive, 
domini Papse poenitentiarius^ salutem in Domino. Willielmum 
Hendel, laycum^ vestrse dioceseos, latorem presencium, qui 
Johannem Champion de Bidel presbiterum cum gladio in 
capita vulneravit, de quo vulnere, ut asseritur, plene convaluit, 
nee est inde effectus inhabilis ad divina, ab excommunicacione^ 
quam propter hoc incurrit^ et aliis peccatis suis^ ad vos aucto- 
ritate domini Papse remittimus^ juxta formam ecclesise absolu- 
tum. Mandantes ei^ inter alia, sub debito prsestiti juramenti, 
ut passo injuriam^ si non satisfecit^ satisfaciat competenter. 
Vos, autem, audita diligenter confessione, et considerata culpa 
ipsius^ injungatis inde sibi auctoritate predicta poenitentiam 
salutarem. Ipsuih vero, si satisfacere forte contempserit, in 
excommunicacionis sententiam recidisse publico nuncietis. Data 
Yienn^ ij non. Octob.^ Pontificatus domini C. Papae y. anno 
sexto. 



II. COMPOSICIO INTER ExECUTORES DOMINI J. MaRMEDUK* 
ET DOMINUM R. FILIUM ET HEREDEM EJUSDEM ET 
DOMINUM NOSTRUM EpiSCOPUM. [lb. fol. 34, 1311.] 

Memorandum, quod, cum inter nobiles viros dominos Henri- 

* An inyentory of the goods and chattels of Sir John Marmeduk has been already 
printed in one of the publications of this Society, (Wills and Inventories, Part I., 

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2 ' DBPOSITlONS AND OTHER 

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cum filium Hugonis'*^ et Thomam de Wytheworth, milites, ex- 
ecutores testament! dominiJohannisMarmeduk^nuper defuncti^ 
ex parte una, et nobilem yirum, dominum Ricardum Marmeduk, 
filium et heredem dicti domini Johannis, ex altera, dicti testa- 
ment! occasione, questio seu controversia mota esset dictis 
partibus coram nobis, Ricardo, permissione divina episcopo 
Dunelmensi, loci ordinario, in manerio nostro de Middelham, 
xvj die Augusti, anno Domini Millesimo trecentesimo undecimo, 
et pontificatus nostri primo, personaliter constitutis, et quibus- 
dam tractatibus habitis inter eos, dicta quaestio seu controversia 
in hunc modum finaliter conquievit. Videlicet quod corpus dicti 
domini Johannis de bonis suis, tanquam de bonis testati, in 
loco ad hoc in voluntate sua ultima destinato debeat honorifice 
sepeliri. Item quod, Inventario bonorum dicti domini Johan- 
nis, auctoritate bonee memorise domini Antonii predecessoris 
nostri t facto, diligenter inspecto, et bonorum eorundem 
quantitate pensata, deducantur, ante omnia, debita, si qua 
liquenda fuerunt, et satisfiat creditoribus de eisdem. De resi- 
duo autem dictorum bonorum deducantur similiter omnes 
expensae, quee ad dicti defuncti sepulturam, in quibuscunque, 
juxta personee suae condicionem et statum et ipsius ultimam 
Toluntatem, necessario requiruntur. Et si estimacio bonorum, 

1835|) with an account of the boiling of his body at Perth, to the intent that, when in 
peaceful times an opportunity should present itself, his bones might be brought home 
and buried in the yard of the cathedral church of Durham, according to his'will. 
Disputes, as it appears, arose between his son and the executors of his will, which are 
here apparently settled before the bishop himself as ordinary, who directs that in the 
veiy first place the bones of the dead man should be committed to the grave in a 
manner befitting his high rank and station. The question, however, between the son 
and the executors continued to be mooted with much angry feeling, and was eventu- 
ally appealed to the court of York ; and it was probably not terminated in 1316, when 
the son, Richard Fitzmarmeduk, then senescal to the Bishop of Durham, was murdered 
upon Framwelgate Bridge, in Durham, by Robert Neville, his kinsman. The mother 
of the murdered man was the sister of Robert Bruce. Neville, called for his splendour 
the Peacock of the North, was killed two years afterwards by James Earl of Douglas, 
whilst leading a lawless band of robbers into Scotland. An engraving of his monu- 
mental e£Bgy in stone, in the north aisle of the church of Brancepeth, is given in Mr. 
Surtees^s fourth volume. — Surtees, I. 24, 25, 26, pt. 2. 

* Of Ravenswath, in Richmondshire. 

f Anthony Becke, bishop of Durham from 1283 to 1310. 



ECCLESIASTICAL. PROCEEDINGS. 3 

de quibus^ ut predictum est^ factum fait Inventarium, ad 
eoruudem bonorum verum valorem minime se extendat, prefatt 
execatores a juramento suo in hac parte praestito^ quantum 
ad illud quod dictam eestimacionem excedit, auctoritate nostra 
ordinaria exonerentur^ et dictus dominus Ricardus, in consci* 
entia sua et periculo animee suee, eadem auctoritate nostra 
oneretur^ quod dictorum bonorum verum valorem idtra cestima- 
cionem supradictam pauperibus, vel in alios pios usus^ conver- 
tendum, pro anima dicti patris sui fideliter erogabit. Et si 
contingat aliqua bona dicti domini Johannis inveniri in supra- 
dicto Inventario non contenta^ pro parte dictorum executorum 
duo viri fidedigni ad eestimandum seu appreciandum bona hujus- 
modi^ et pro parte dicti domini Ricardi duo alii eligantur, 
quorum aestimacionem seu appreciacionem, si omnes conveniant, 
utraque pars ratam habebit et acceptam. Si autem convenire 
non possint dicti duo pro parte executorum^ et alii duo ex parte 
dicti domini Ricardi electi, eestimacionem suam per se scribant 
separatim. Et utraque pars postmodum sestimaciohem seu 
appreciacionem hujusmodi nobis presentabit, et quod per nos 
fuerit ordinatum dictae partes in omnibus acceptabunt. Bona 
autem^ quae sic aestimata f uerint^ penes dictum dominum Ricar- 
dum remanebunt3 et ipse praefatis executoribus statim satis- 
faciat de estimacione eorundem^ alias ipsa bona eisdem execu- 
toribus liberentur. Consensum est^preterea^quod tarn executores 
supradicti; quam dictus Ricardus, erga executores testamenti 
dicti predecessoris nostri, de nostro auxilio et consilio, per viam 
amoris instanter procurabunt^ ut de centum triginta marcis^ 
quas idem dominus Ricardus prefato predecessori nostro, dum 
vixit, pro bonis dicti domini Johannis eidem domino Ricardo 
venditis solvit, per prefatos executores sibi satisfiat; alias hoc 
idem per viam justiciae procuretur. Et si neutra via illud valeat 
procurari, tum dictae pecuniae solucio ipsis executoribus, necnon 
dicto domino Ricardo, pro partibus cedat equalibus in jacturam. 
Item quod bona dicti defuncti, quae p^aefatus dominus Ricardus 
recepit vel habuit, seu aestimaciones prefatas executoribus 
reddat integre vel persolvat. Ita quod de dictis bonis, vel aesti- 
nu^cione eorundem, libere valeant disponere, et, prout saluti 
animae defuncti magis eis expedire videbitur, ordinare. Item 

B 2 



4 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

super hiis^ quae dictus dominus Ricardus de bonis dicti patris 
sui uititur vendicare^ pro eo quod pater suus uxorem non habuit^ 
nee liberos praeter eum^ Consistorii nostri Dunelmensis con- 
sideracioni tarn secundum leges ecclesiasticas quam secundum 
consuetudines se apposuerunt partes memorat® 



III. PCENITENTIABIUS. [lb. fol. 37, b.] 

Memorandum^ quod vj die mensis Marcii^ anno Domini 
1311-2^ assignavit dominus Episcopus dominum Reginaldum 
de Bameby^ monachum Dunelmensem^ poenitenciarium suum, 
in civitate et diocesi Dunelmensi. 



IV. Inpuloentia de audientibus sebmonem« 

[lb. fol. 54, b.] 

Christ! fidelibus universis, preesentes literas inspecturis, Ri^ 
cardus permissione divina Dunelmensis episcopus, salutem in 
Domino. Propositum Evangelicae doctrinse pabulum humiliter 
servis Dei fecunda multiplicacione pii largitoris laudibus adjicit 
audientibus, quos edificando erigit nimirum, proficit ad saluti- 
feram cognicionem, viam aperit Creatoris. Convertentes igitur 
intuitum ad venerandam sapienciam et conversacionem lauda- 
bilem discreti viri magistri Roberti de Quigheley, sacree theo- 
logise doctoris, quern ad lucrifactionem animarum et proponen- 
dum aptum cernimus verbum Dei, nos, de ejusdem omnipotentis 
miti misericordia, glorioseeque Virginis Maries matris ipsius, 
Apostolorura Petri et Pauli, necnon sanctissimi Confessoris 
Cuthberti patroni nostri, omniumque sanctorum meritis et 
intercessionibus confidentes, omnibus parochianis nostris, et 
aliis, quorum diocesani banc nostram Indulgenciam ratam ha- 
buerint, et peccatis suis vere contritis poenitentibus et confessis, 
qui ad sermonem ejusdem Magistri Roberti reverenter confiux- 
erint, et aures eidem intentas prcebuerint, dum ipsum publice 
]|)ra&dicare vel in publico contigerit exponere verbum Dei, quad- 



ECCi^BSIABTICAL PR0CSBDIN08. 5 

raginta dies de injuncta sibi poenitencia misericorditer relaxamus. 
In cajus. — ^Data apud Stoketon^ 16 Sep. 1312.* 

V. PCENITBNTIARTUS. [lb. fol. 34, b.] 

Memorandum^ quod, secundo die Februarii, anno Domini 
Millesimo ccc undecimo, constituit dominus fratrem Ricardum 
de Insula Penitentiarium generalem, per totam diocesim Du« 
nelmensem. 

VI. LlCENTIA ADEUNDI 8COLA8. [lb. fol. 35.] 

Ricardus, permissione divina Dunelmensis episcopus^ dilecto 
in Christo filio, Roberto de Lareye^ subdiacono, rectori ecclesin 
de Winston, salutem^ gratiam et benedictionem. Quoniam 
per yiros literatos Dei consuevit ecclesia venustari^ cupientibus 
in agro studii laborare, et adquirere scienciae margaritam, favo- 
rem libenter et gratiam impartimur. Laudabili igitur proposito 
tuo, quod ad morum et studii exercitationem habere novimus^ 
ut tibi per yitae et aliis proficias per exemplum, pio concur- 
rentes consensu, tuisque devocionis precibus favorabiliter incli* 
nati, ut^ in loco ubi generale viget studium, ad usque festum 
Translacionis beati Thomae martyris proxime futurum, et inde 
in biennium revolutum, morari valeas, scblasticis disciplinis 
insistens. Et interim [ut] ecclesiam tuam ad firmam possis 
dimittere, et ad personalem residenciam vel superiorum ordinum 
susceptionem minime tenearis, secundum formam Constitucionis 
Bonifacii Octavi graciosam, tibi tenore praesencium licenciam 
indulgemus. Proviso^ tamen, quod ecclesia tua debitis interim 
obseqidis^ ac pauperes parocbiani consuetis elemosinis minime 
defraudentur, nee animarum cura negligatur aliquatenus ii^ 
eadem. In cujus. — Dunelm. Data 16 Febr. 1311-2, 

VIL LiTEBA LIBERTATIS CONCESSA CLEBIOO NATIVO.— -r 

[lb. f. 55.] 
Ricardus, permissione divina Dunelmensis epiacopus, dilecto 

• A similar indulgence was granted to all who should devoutly attend the sennon^ 
of the monks of Durham vnpvJblico, 14 Nov. 1312. (Pol. ^^, b.) 



6 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

in Christo filio Waltero de Heghington clerico, nostrco dioceseos^ 
salutem. Quia libertatibus jura favent maximeut cultus augeatur 
divinus^ tuque in divini cultus augmentum ascribi desideras 
militiee clericali^ nos tuae deyocionis precibus favorabiliter in- 
clinati, ut ad omnes ordines, yinculo servili^ quo nobis astrin* 
geriSj non obstante, licile valeas promoyeri, liberam tibi, tenore 
presencium, concedimus facultatem ob favorem divini cultus 
pariter et augmentum, vinculum predictum, et jus dominii in 
personam tuam nobis competens, exnunc penitus renunci- 
antes. In cujus. — ^Apud Stoketon die S. Matth. Apost. 1312. 

Memorandum, quod, eisdem die et anno, habuit magister 
Robertus de Heghington, scolaris aulee de Merton in Oxoniis, 
quandam literam libertatis sub eadem forma. 



VIII. Contra abstrahentes confuoientes ad eccle- 

SIAM. [lb. f. 67-1 

Ricardus, permissione divina Dunelmensis episcopus, dilecto 
filio archidiacono Dunelmensi,* vel ejus oflSciali, salutem. Ad 
nos clamor ascendit, et cum quadam audivimus turbacione cor- 
dis et animi, quod quidam iniquitatis filii, propriae salutis im- 
memores, quosdam in ecclesia Fratrum de Monte Carmeli in 
Novo Castro constitutos, qui pro securitate et conservacione 
vitae suae ad dictam ecclesiam confugerant, immunitatem eccle- 
siasticam implorantes, in Dei et ecclesiasticae libertatis con- 
temptum, ab eadem ecclesia violenter abstraxerunt, quos ipso 
facto in majoris excommunicacionis sententiam contra violantes 
ecclesiasticam libertatem a Sanctis Patribus provide promulga- 
tam, non est dubium incidisse; Quocirca discrecioni vestree 
committimus et mandamus, quatenus, in capitulis vestris et 
singulis ecclesiis et capellis archidiaconatus predicti, singulis 
diebus dominicis et festivis, omnes et singulos, qui in abstrac- 
cione dictorum confugarum sic immunitatem et ecclesiasticam 
libertatem nequiter infregerunt, pulsatis campanis et accensis 
candelis, inter missarum solempnia majoris excommunicacionis 
■entenciam denuncietis, et denunciari faciatis publice et 

* Thomas de Goldesburgh. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 7 

solempniter innodatos, ab hujusmodi denunciacione nuUatenus 
desistentes vel facientes desisti donee aliud a nobis habueritis in 
mandatis. De norainibus etiam eorum^ qui premissum faeinus 
commiserunt, et eisdem opem operam consilium vel auxitium 
prsestiterunt^ cum omni diligencia inquiratis ; nosque sine moree 
dispendio, de hiis^ quae in preemissis feceritis^ ac de nominibus 
hujusmodi malefactorum — non omittatis reddere certiores. — 
Stoketon,21 Nov. 1312* 



IX. Recepcio equi ab intestato defuncti. [lb. f. 67,b.] 

Universis pateat per presentes, quod nos Ricardus5 permis- 
sione divina Dunolmensis episcopus^ recepimus de dilecto filio 
magistro Ricardo de Ergum^ Officiali nostro Dunelmensi^ unum 
runcinum^ albi coloris, quern idem magister Ricardus habuit in 
custodia sua^ de bonis quondam Johannis de Werdal^ nostree 
dioccseos Dunelmensis^ ab intestato defuncti^ tanquam bona 
intestati. In cujus. — Dat. apud Middleham xiiij. kal. Decembr. 
1312. 

* It was soon afterwards discovered that Nicholas le Porter of Newcastle was the 
person who had committed this breach of sanctuary, and the penance enjoined him by 
the Bishop of Durham, to be performed at Newcastle and Durham, was as follows, 
[lb. p. 78, 79.] 

Tidelicet, quod die dominico proximo futuro, et singulis diebus dominicis, usque ad 
prsesentjs anni revolucionem suocessiTe, ad valvas ecdesi^ beati Nicholai de Novo 
Castro supradictjB, discalciatus, nudato capite, et roba Unea solum indutus, astante 
ibidem populi multitudine, fustigaciones a vobis [i. e. the curate of St. Nicholas in New- 
castle] publico recipiat, causam suae hujusmodi poenitencise exprimens in vulgari, 
suumque pariter in hac parte confitendo reatum, et quod, sic receptis fustigacionibus 
hujusmodi, ad supradiotam ecclesiam Fratr\un de Carmeli Monte discalciatus, nudato 
capite et vestitus ut prsemittitur, idem Nicholaus, vos eum subsequentes anteced^t 
ad fores dictae ecclesise beatse MarisB, consimiles fustigaciones a vobis recepturus, cum 
expressione culpse supradicta. — Dat. apud Evenwode, 7 kal. Mali, 1313. 

Oapellano paroohiall ecclesise beati Nicholai in Dunelmo, salutem. Nicholao le Porter 
pcenitentiaqi yij:uximus subsoquentem — ^Yidelicet, quod, diebus lunse martis et mer- 
curii in ebdomada festi Pentecostes proximo futuris, ad valvas ecclesise beati Nicholai 
in Dunelmo, discalciatus, nudato capite et roba linea solum Indutus, astan^ ibidem 
populi multitudine, fustigaciones a vobis publice recipiat, causam suae poenitentiad 
exprimens in vulgari [&c. ut supra]. Et quod hujusmodi fustigacionibus sic receptis 
ibidem, ad ecclesiam cathedralem Dunelm. discalciatus, nudato capite et vestitus ut 
pnamittitur, idem Nicholaus vos jeum subsequentes antecedat ad fores dictse eccljesise 
Cathedralis, consimiles fustigaciones recepturus. 



8 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 



X. ExcoMMUNiCACio Ranulphi de Nbvill. [lb.] 

Ricardas Archidiacono Dunolmensi Cum nuper 

dominus Ranulfus de Nevill, coram nobis personaliter con« 
stitutus, ad restitucionem quorundam armorum, precii viginti 
quatuor librarum, quae de bonis domioi Johannis Spryng 
militis,* ab intestato defuncti^ et auctoritate nostra sequestratis, 
se coram nobis confessus est asportasse^ per nos ex officio juxta 
ipsius confessionem fuisset — ^ad restitucionem sub majoris ex- 
communicacionis poena — judicialiter condempnatus — et reddere 
recusavit — ^vobis injungimus — quatenus eundem Ranulfum per 
singulas ecclesias parochiales et capellas archidiaconatus vestri^ 
diebus solempnibus et festivis, intra missarum solempnia^ cum 
major aderit populi multitudo^ pulsatis campanis, accensisque 
candelis et extinctis^ sic excommunicatum fuisse et esse publice 
nuncietis seu faciatis per alios nunciari. — Stoketon, 7 Aug. 1313.t 



XI. LiTERA MISSA DOMINO LiBERTATIS DE TvNDAItE PRO 
CAPCIONE INFRASCRIPTORUM. [lb. f. 73, b.] 

Nobili viro domino Edmundo de Malo Lacu, domino Liber- 
tatis de Tyndale,:^ Ricardus, permissione divina Dunelmensis 
episcopus^ salutem in Eo qui est omnium vera salus. Domina- 
cioni vestrce notum facimus, per presentes, quod Adam de Yar- 
halgh clericus, Alanus Mungonson, Patricius de Evelingham, 
Johannes de eadem, Druetus forestarius, Robertus de V Dodde, 
Robertus filius Adee de V Barnes, Adam de Halghton, Gilbertus 
de Mora, Adam de eadem, Thomas Eldre, Adam Hirde, Jo- 
hannes Spurneston, Adam filius Ricardi de la Lege, Rogerus 
Tumour, Adam filius Johannis, Thomas Porter, Willielmus 
Wade, Alanus filius Johannis, Ricardus filius Johannis, Ricar* 

* See Surtees' Hist. Durh. I. 145—6. 

*f Absolved, die martis prox. post fest. Michaelis, 1313, in capella de Evenwood, Sir 
John Thweng, Knt. appearing as his proxy. The Bishop gives an acquittance for the 
armour, 2 Octob. 1313. Ibid. 

i See Hodgson, vol. III. pt. 2, ad init. for an account of the Lords of Tindale. 
Mftuley was an officer under the crown. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 9 

dus Shevill, Petrus de V Grenehalgh, et Johannes Hunter de 
Espleywodj parochiani nostri^ manentes in parochia de Sy- 
mundbum^ auctoritate nostra ordinaria in diocesi nostra Dunel* 
mensi, propter suas contumacias pariter et ofFensas manifestas, 
majoris excommunicacionis sententia innodati, in ea per quad- 
raginta dies et amplius, animis induratis^ pertinaciter indura- 
runt^ et adhuc^ contemptis ecclesiae clavibus^ perseverant. Quo 
circa vestree dominacioni supplicamus, quatinus^ ad violenciam 
predictorum rebellium salubrius reprimendam, literas vestras, 
si placet, velitis concedere, secundum praeobtentatam merito- 
riam et piam consuetudinem regni Angliee, ut, quos diutius 
timor a malo non revocat, vestrae Regalis potestas libertatis 
coberceat temporalis. Dominacionem vestram conservet Altis- 
simus, cum incremento continue gaudii et honoris. Data apud 
Kypier, juxta Dunelmum, xiiij die Februarii, Pontificatus nostri 
anno secundo (1312 — 3). 



XII. LiCENCIA AD EDENDUM GARNES IN AdYBNTU DoMINI. 

[lb. f. 109, b.] 

Ricardus , dilecto filio domino Willielmo de Tanefeld,* 

quondam Priori Dunolmensi, salutem. — Declinans in senectam 
et senium tanta infirmitate deprimeris corporali quod statutum 
^^ de non edendo carnes in Adventu Domini" sine grandi periculo 
corporis non poteris observare; quocirca, cum necessitas leg! 
non subjaceat, paterno cupientes affectu, servato moderamine 
pietatis, tuum desiderium supportare, in toto Adventu Domini 
proxime future, singulis diebus dominicis, secunda tercia et 
quinta feria, singulis septimanis, nisi aliud solempne jejunium in 
ipsis contigerit, esum carnium et carnalium tibi specialiter in- 
dulgemus. — Data apud Evenwod, 2 Dec. 1313. 

XIII. Absolucio. [lb. f. 110.] 
13 Dec. 1313. Absolucio domini Willielmi de Norham, ca- 

* Formerly Prior of the Cell of Wederall, under the Abbey of St. Mary's, of York ; 
Elected Prior of Durham in January, 1207 — 8 ; resigned in the summer of 1313. 



10 DBP08ITI0NS AND OTHER 

pellani, qui sentenciis excommanicacionum fuerat innodatus^ 
quod Radulfo de Roop^ clerico, in minoribus ordinibus et infra 
annos puberes constitutor in cancello ecclesiie de Wermuth- 
Episcopi manus injiciendo^ in eum ad effiisionem sanguinis irro- 
garat injuriam. 

Injunctae sunt domino Willielmo capellano poenitenciee infra- 
script®^ quod^ infra annum preesentem^ jejunet in pane et aqua 
duodecim diebus yeneris^ et infra idem tempus dicat xij psalteria 
pro animabus parentum domini Episcopi, et omnium fidelium 
defunctorum^ et quod, per tres dies yeneris^ pascat singulis 
diebus unum pauperem. 

XIV. EXCOMMUNICATIO CONTRA DOMINUM NeVILL. 

[lb. 110, b.] 

Sententia Excommunicacionis lata contra dominum Ranul- 
phum de Neyill, militem, pro incestus et adulterii crimine cum 
domina Anastasia filia sua, uxore domini Walteri de Faucom- 
berg junioris, eommisso. 

XV. Inquisicio super casu qui accidit apud Hocthton. 

[lb. f. 148.] 

Johannes Sayer, dict«e ecclesiee de Hoghton parochianus, ex 
adventu Scotorum, partes nostras bostiliter nuper ingredientium, 
perterritus, ad ipsam eoclesiam confugit, in campanili ejusdem 
se satagens receptsurc, ascendensque, minus caute, ad terram 
decidit casualiter; ubi, aliquantulum jacens, spiritum exalavit, 
modico sanguine super atrium ecclesiffi de ipsius naribus deflu- 
ente — ^propter quod a diyinis est cessandum. 3 kal. Aug^ 1314. 



XVL LiTERA AD DEPRECANDUM PRO DOMINO ReOE.^ 

[Reg, Bury ad fin. Kellawe, f. 329, b.] 
Ricardus permissione divina Dunolmensis episcopus dilectis 

* The king had in person destroyed the French fleet, on the day of St. John the 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 11 

filiis Priori et conventui ecclesi® nostra Cathedralis Danol- 
mensis, cum sinceriB caritatis augmento, benedictionem. — 
Quantis et qaalibus periculorum procellis et invasionam horro- 
ribus regnum Angliae subjacuerit^ temporibus retroactis, yestrafU 
discrecionem credimus, immo scimus certitudinaliter, non 
latere ; sed^ ecce^ ubi plus timebatur adversitas ibi subito^ bene- 
dictus Altissimus ! versa est vis turbinis in tranquillum. Jam 
enim ex Uteris domini Cantuariensis, omni hesitacione semota^ 
recepimus, quod Justus Dominus et misericor99 cui non est in 
tibiis viri benepl acitum^ nee in fortitudine equi voluntas,'*' nos 
de affligentibus nos salvavit, et odientes nos inimicos, videlicet 
nostros Francigenas, per manum famuli sui domini nostri Anj^iB 
confudit et in mari conclusit. Quocirca caritati vestne firmiter 
injungimus et mandamus, quatenus, hac instanti sexta feria, 
coacta processione solempni, ac laxatis vocis organis, in laudum 
praeconiis, Altissimo pro tanta triumphi gracia humili et sincero 
corde offeratis victimam labiorum. Yalete. Scripta apud Mid- 
delham, 3 Jul. 1340. 

XVII. Injunctiones FACXiE Priori Dunolmensi et 
OMNIBUS C0MM0NACHI8 suis. [Reg. Hatfield, f. 21, b.] 

Thomas, permissione, etc., dilecto filio Johanni,t Priori ec- 
clesiee nostne Cathedralis Dunelmensis, salutem, gratiam et 
benedictionem. Ad correctionem et reformacionem quorundam 
defectuum et erratuum in Visitacione nostra, nonnuper in 
ecclesia nostra praedicta per nos personaliter exercita, comper- 
torum procedere, statuere, et injunctiones salubres facere, ac ne 
similia in posterum perpetrentur diligenti studio preecavere, 
quantum nobis possibile fuerit, cupientes, tibi, in virtute sancte& 
obedientiflB firmiter injungendo mandamus, quatenus injunc- 
tiones statuta et mandata nostra, inferius sequentia, quantum ad 
te pertinet, diligenter observes, et a Capitulo ecclesiee nostne 

Baptist, the 24th of June preceding ; and this is a letter from the Bishop to his Prior 
and Convent, entreating them, in earnest language, to return thanks to the Almighty 
for the victory. 

* Ps. cxlvi. 10. Trans. Vulg. 

+ John Forcer, Prior of Durham from 1341 to 1374. 



12 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

universo prcedicte^ quantum ad ipsum perlinet^ et a singularibus 
monachis dicti Capituli confratribus, quantum ad ipsos pertinet^ 
districte facias observari ; sub poena canonica tibi, in eventu quo 
prsedicta facere contempseris^ auctoritate nostra legitime infe- 
renda. 

In primis^ Dei nomine invocato, statuimus^ volumus et man- 
damusj quod in ecclesia nostra Cathedrali pra^icta, sollempniter 
et tractim^ divinum celebretur officium, nocturnura pariter et 
diumum^ sicut decet ecclesiam Cathedralem, 

Item, volumus et mandamus^ quod fratres tuos, monachos 
dictae ecclesiae^ benigne ad ardua negocia monasterii discutienda 
convoces^ et eos benigne audias, et libere loqui pennittas^ et 
cum consilio seniorum et saniorum cuncta disponas. 

Item, Yolumus et mandamus^ quod, celerius quo commode 
poteris, proyideas fratribus medicum competentem, qui moram 
faciat infra monasterium^ sicut hactenus fieri consuevit. 

Item, volumus et mandamus, quod infirmi monachi, in 
infirmaria constituti, de levibus et delicatis cibis, secundum 
naturam infirmitatum eorum, procurentur ; et babeant famulos 
necessaries, sicut solebant; et visitentur per Celerarium sin- 
gulis diebus, prout moris est. 

Item, volumus et mandamus, quod monachi habeant debitas 
et consuetas recreationes, sine acceptione personarum, secun- 
dum ordinacionem Supprioris et Capellani Prioris, prout moris 
extitit ab antiquo. 

Item, volumus, injungimus et mandamus, quod quando Prior 
non curat exire ad spaciandum cum monachis, tunc Supprior, 
vel aliquis senior, associet sibi fratres indigentes recreatione ; 
et recipiat Supprior sex denarios pro coquina, et quilibet de 
sociis tres denarios, et quilibet de ministris necessariis duos 
denarios, per singulos absenci® dies. 

Item, statuimus et injungendo mandamus, quod monachis 
licentiatis visitare amicos suos provideatis de vectura et armi- 
geris et aliis necessariis, ut honeste incedant, et visitentur ab 
obedienciariis, sicut visitari consueverunt. 

Item, volumus et mandamus, quod obedienciarii habeant 
equos infra septa monasterii, pro sua et fratrum vectura, exeun- 
cium de licencia, sicut fieri consuevit. 



ECCLE8IASTICAL PROCBEDINGS, IS 

Item, quod amici monachorum et hospites ad monasterium 
declinantes honorifice admittantur et competenter procurentur^ 
juzta facultatem officii. 

Item, statuimus, volumus^ et firmiter injungendo mandamus, 
quod bona assignata elemosinee pro sustentacione pauperum 
faciat Prior elemosinario liberari, et pauperibus eroganda, et de 
bonis subtractis elemosinae faciat Prior elemosinario responderi, 
juxta facultates Monasterii, cum ad hoc tempus se optulerit 
oportunum. 

Item, volumus et mandamus, quod elemosinarius, singulis 
diebus, clericis in Elemosinaria existentibus quatuor panes ad 
jantaculum et quatuor ad coenam faciat ministrari, more antiquo. 
Item, preecipimus, volumus et mandamus, quod distribuciones 
quae fieri consueverunt in diebus anniversarii bonae memoriae 
Willielmi, Hugonis, et Philippi, quondam episcoporum Dunel- 
mensium, fiant, more solito. 

Item, prohibemus sub poena praedicta, et firmiter injungendo 
mandamus, ne aliquis, cujuscunque condicionis vel status 
existat, contra quem aliquid est, vel fuit, in visitacione nostra 
compertum praedicta seu detectum, aliquid malum dicat, damp- 
num vel gravamen faciat, vel fieri mandet vel procuret, clam vel 
palam, his, quos scit, vel suspicatur, aliquid deposuisse contra 
eum in visitacione nostra praedicta ; praecipue cum deposi- 
Clones hujusmodi ad correctiones salubres tendere dinoscuntur ; 
poenas quidem canonicas, l^ransgressoribus infligendas, in hac 
parte, nobis specialiter reservantes. 

Volumus etiam et praecipimus omnia praemissa distincte et 
aperte notificari omnibus et singulis de Capitulo nostro prae- 
dicto, et cuilibet copiam fieri earundem. 

Item, volumus et mandamus, quod, in arduis negociis, sigiU 
laciones fiant tribus temporibus anni, omnibus congregatis. 

Item, tibi praecipiendo mandamus, sub poena superius 
annotata, quod defectus imminentes in coopertura et refectione 
ecclesiae nostrae Cathedralis, et campanilis ejusdem, infra bien- 
nium a die confectionis praesencium continue numerandum, 
refici faciatis et congrue reparari. Reservantes nobis specia- 
liter potestatem super aliis quibusdam articulis gp*avioribus, in 
visitacione supradicta nobis detectis et delatis, injunctiones et 



14 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

correctiones faciendi in posterum, pro loco et temporibus 
opRprtunis. Valete. Data in manerio nostro de Aukland, 
xxvj die mensis Marcii, Anno Domini MiUesimo ccclv. £t 
consecrationis nostra x\ 



XVIII. Contra dominum Williblmum de Bevbrlaco* 

ARGHIDIACONUM NoRTBUMBRIJS DIFFAMATUM QUOD DOLO 

ET EX precognita malicia interfecit Hugonem del 
Butre LAicuM.t [Reg. Hatfield^ f. 69.] 

5 Jan. 1370. Attestaciones testium pro parte dicti domini 
Willielmi de Beverlaco. 

Johannes de Rome, setatis triginta annorum et amplius^ ut 
dicit, testis — ^ad articulum contra ipsum ex officio propositum, 
sibi Yulgariter]: expositum, dicit — quod preesens fuit in aula 
rectoris de Wolsyngham, apud Wolsingham^ in festo S. Lam- 
berti^ videlicet die Martis proxime post festum Exaltacionis 
Sanctffi Crucis, A.D. 1370, in crepusculo noctis, post recessum 
domini Episcopi Dunelmensis, tunc ibidem existentis, de aula 
in cameram ; remanente familia ejusdem in aula, ubi vidit et 
audivit Nicholaum de Skelton inferre minas Johanni de Auk- 
land, servient! dicti domini Willielmi de Beverlaco, videlicet 
quod frangeret sibi capud, et quod tunc quidam Johannes de 
Essex, famulus eciam dicti domini Willielmi, assistens, dixit 
dicto Nicholao, " Non, domine, non moveamini ; quia, si deli- 
querit, faciet emendas ad velle vestrum/^ Cui dictus Nicholaus 
dixit, ^^ Quid dicis, tu ribalde ? ego frangam capud tuum simili- 
ter.^^ Quo audito per dictum dominum Willielmum de Bever- 
laco, idem dominus Willielmus a dicto Nicholao qua?sivit 
quorum capita erunt fracta modo ibidem ? Cui dictus Nicho- 
laus respondit, grosso modo, " Istorum, qid meruerunt,'' et 

* Archdeacon of Northumberland in 1369. Mis seal is engraved in SurteeSfpL 
xii. No. 9. 

f These proceedings occupy many leaves of the Register, and detail the whole process 
of a solemn inquiry of this nature as it was conducted in a Court Ecclesiastical of that 
period. The more important depositions and the result only are here printed. 

:{: That is, the English tongue. Unfortunately these articles have not been preserved. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PBOCEEDINOS. 15 

dictus dominus Willielmus dixit eidem Nicholao, ^' Mihi vide- 
tur quod tu loqueris servientibus meis/' Cui dictus Nicholaus 
dixit^ ^^ Ita libenter loquor tuis sicut aliis/' vel ^* sic libentius 
tuis quam aliis/' Cui dictus dominus Willielmus dixit^ ^^Et 
talia non deberes facere^ et si frangas capita servientium meo- 
rum^ forte aliquis de meis franget capud servientis tui/^ Cui 
dictus Nicholaus dixit^ '^ Et nisi tu hoc feceris diabolus sus- 
pendat te/' Et hoc dicto, subito irruebat in eum cum uno 
baculo yenatico^ sufficienter ponderoso ad occidendum hominem. 
Quo viso5 dictus dominus Willielmus^ extrahens cultellum suum^ 
et retrocedens versus cameram suam, in gradibus cameras suee 
per dictum Nicholaum fuit prostratus ad terram^ antequam 
poterat ad cameram suam attingere, et ibi in iUo conflictu inter 
eos fuit cultellus dicti domini Willielmi fractus per medium, et 
idem dominus Willielmus fuit laesus in digito usque ad san- 
guinis effusionem et sub oculo sinistro. Quo viso, iste juratus, 
et alii contestes sui, occurrentes, ipsos separaverunt, et deti- 
nuerunt dictum Nicholaum, ne magis accederet ad eum. Quo 
facto, dictus Nicholaus mandavit et preecepit cuidam Thomee, 
servienti suo, tunc ibidem personaliter existenti, et dixit, 
*^ Vade tu et interficias ipsum Willielmum, falsum presbite- 
rum/^ Qui quidem Thomas, ad mandatum hujusmodi, currens 
ad dictum dominum Willielmum cum longo cultello suo ex- 
tracto in manu sua, dixit, ^* False presbiter, tu lues et morieris, 
si possim attingere ad te,'^ et sic currebat ad eum fugientem 
versus cameram suam ; et ipse dominus Willielmus, existens in 
ascendendo gradus versus cameram suam, et yidens alium ita 
prope venientem et sic sibi insultantem, ad defensionem suam, 
et ad repellendum dictum Thomam, projecit dictum fractum 
cultellum versus eundem Thomam, qui quidem cultellus Hugo- 
nem de V butre, subito intervenientem ad impediendum dictum 
Thomam, ne dictum dominum Willielmum percuteret, in capite 
vulneravit ; ex quo vulnere postmodum preedictus Hugo infra 
paucos dies moriebatur, ut credit. Dicit etiam quod novit dic- 
tum dominum Willielmum per duodecim annos et ampHus. 
Item dicit quod novit dictum Nicholaum de Skelton per viginti 
annos, et Thomam servientem suum praedictum per duodecim 
annos, et Hugonem de V butre per sexdecim annos et amplius. 



16 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

ut dicit. Dicit etiam^ requisitus, quod idem dominus Williel- 
mus5 statim post jactum dicti cultelli, currebat festinanter ad 
hostium cameree sued, tunc clausum, quod aperuit^ et intravit 
in cameram suam et claudebat hostium ; et dicit quod nulla 
dissencio fuit antea inter dictos Willielmum et Hugonem^ sed 
quod fuerunt, ante et tunc, carissimi amici ad invicem^ quia 
idem dominus Willielmus maritavit filiam fratris sui eidem 
Hugoni paulo ante, et dicit quod bene scit quod dictus Thomas 
occidisset dictum dominum Willielmum, et quod dictus domi- 
nus Willielmus non evasisset mortem, ad tunc, nisi sic proje- 
cisset cultellum suum, quia locus erat ita artus super gradus 
preedictos, quod idem dominus Willielmus fuit ibidem quasi 
inangulatus^ quod aliter, ut priemittitur, non potuisset evasisse 
mortem suam, ut preefertur. 

Robertus Hegheacre, eet. 40 annorum — fuit praesens — in aula 
rectoris de Wolsinghara — ubi vidit et audivit Nicholaum de 
Skelton, tunc ibidem in dicto manerio cum familia domini epis- 
copi preedicti existentem, dicere, quod ipse frangeret capud 
cujusdam garcionis servientis dicti domini Willielmi de Bever- 
laco ; quo audito, alter famulus dicti domini Willielmi, assistens, 
rogavit dictum Nicholaum, sic dicens, " Non, bone domine, 
quod si consocius meus in aliquo malefecerit, faciet emendas/' 
Cui dictus Nicholaus dixit, "Immo frangem etiam capud tuum, 
si quid dicas/' Quo audito per dictum dominum Willielmum, 
dixit dicto Nicholao, " Cujus capud modo frangetur ? Apparet 
mibi quod tu loqueris servienti meo ; si quid deliquerit ego cas- 
tigabo eum libenter, sed nollem quod tu franges sibi capud/' 
Cui dictus Nicholaus dixit, " Nou dimittam propter te." Cui 
dictus dominus Willielmus, ^^Et si frangas capud servientis 
mei forte hoc poterit nocere alicui de tuis/' Cui dictus Nicho- 
laus dixit, " Vis tu nocere mihi ? nunquam vidisti melius tempus 
quam nunc,'^ et cum hoc irruebat in eum cum uno baculo, ad 
longitudinem hominis, ad percutiendum eum. Quo yiso, dictus 
dominus Willielmus abstraxit se, recedens versus cameram 
suam, cum cultello suo extracto inter eos in defensione sua, ut 
apparuit isti jurato, qui semper tenuit cultellum inter eos et 
non percussit cum eo. Quo non obstante, dictus Nicholaus 
ipsum dominum WiUielmum apprehendens, projecit eum ad 



ECCLESIASTICAL Pl^OCBEOINGI. 17 

terrain^ et concolcavit eum sub se, et Jpsum super digitum et 
sub ocolo laedebat enormiter, quodque iste juratus contestes sui 
et alii venerunt ad separandum eosdem. Post quod dictus 
Nicholaus^ captus et detentus ab eo per alios, priecepit Thomas 
servienti suo dicens, *' Tu ribalde, interficias tu ipsum." Qui 
quidem Thomas, extracto cultello longo, festinavit versus dic- 
tum dominum WiUielmum, damans crudeliter '^ False presbiter, 
tu morieris ;'^ et persequabatur eundem dominum Willielmum, 
trafaentem se ad cameram suam, ascendendo gradus. Et dictus 
dominus Willielmus videns ipsum Thomam ipsum insequi ita 
crudeliter, cultellum suum, qui fuit fractus per medium, dum 
fuit prostratus ad terram per dictum Nicholaum, et adtunc in 
manu sua habebat, ad repellendum dictum Thomam, projecit, 
quem dictus Thomas videns yenientem, Hugonem de 1' butrie, 
subito currentem inter eosdem, ad impediendum dictum Tho- 
mam, ne dictum dominum Willielmum interficeret, super pras- 
dictum cultellum propulsit, animo iracundise. Qui cultellus, 
sic projectus, sic cecidit super capud dicti Hugonis, et ipsum 
vulneravit in capite, et credit iste juratus et dicit, quod, infra 
duos dies proxime sequentes, dictus Hugo moriebatur de vul- 
nere prsedicto. Et dicit quod dictus dominus Willielmus non 
potuit aliter se salvasse, ut bene scit, propter aptitudinem loci, 
qui fiiit in angulo donee fuit, nisi per jactum dicti cultelli, ut 
praefertur, eo quod dictus Thomas in tantum fuit impeditus et 
turbatus, per jactum dicti cultelli, quod, interim, dictus dominus 
Willielmus, apperiens hostium camerae suae, cam apprehen- 
debat, et claudebat hostium inter eos, quam alias non appre- 
hendisset, ut dicit. 

Johannes de Stokton, aetatis 26 annorum — praesens fuit in 
aula rectoriae de Wolsingham — circa horam eundi ad lectum, 
domino Thoma episcopo Dunolmensi in camera sua infra dictam. 
rectoriam existente, ac quampluribus de familia ejusdem domini 
episcopi in aula praedicta stantibus et ad invicem confabulanti^ 
bus, ubi, et quando, audivit et vidit Nicholaum de Skelton 
aiguere unum de famulis dicti domini Willielmi de Beverlaco, 
et imponere ei, quod deliquit erga pagettum de aula domini, et 
dicere quod frangeret sibi capud. Qui negavit quod non deli- 
quit contra ilium pagettum, et in hoc venit alius famulus dicti 

c 



18 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

domini Willielmi, et optulit emendas fieri pro consocio suo, si 
quid deliquerit ; et rogavit dictum Nioolaum quod non per frac* 
taram capitis puniret earn, quodque dictus Nicholaus dixit 
^idem^ *' Eciam ribalde, et capud tanm frangam ; " et quod 
dictus dominus Willielmus, audiens heec verba, qusesivit a dicto 
Nicholao quae capita deberent frangi? proferens ista verba, 
*' Videtur mihi quod loqueris famulis meis ; ego nolo quod tu 
frangeres capita eorundem, quia non babes tale oiEcium quod 
possis aliquos sic castigare ; quod si faoere yelles ego tibi resis- 
terem, vel tantum facerem fieri alicui de tuis, si possem/^ Et 
idem Nicholaus, asserens se hoc velle statim probare, currebat 
fort ter ad dictum dominum Willielmum, cum quodam baculo 
in manu sua, ac si voluisset percussisse, et in voluntate, ut ap- 
paruit, percutiendi eundem dominum Willielmum ; et dictus 
dominus Willielmus, videns ipsum ita atrociter venire festinando 
contra eimi, extraxit unum cultellum, quem tenuit directe inter 
eosdem, pro defensione sua, et retrocedens se subtraxit usque 
ad gradus lapideos, qui ducebant ad cameram pro dicto domino 
Willielmo assignatam, et quod dictus Nicholaus, propter hoc 
non omittens, irruebat in eum, et ipsum dominum Willielmum 
per gulam capiens projecit super ipsos gradus ad hostium butil- 
leriee subtus eum, et cultellum dicti domini Willielmi praedictum 
per dejectionem hujusmodi fregit quasi per medium, et ipsum 
dominum Willielmum tam in digito quam sub oculo loedebat, ita 
quod aspectui liesio hujusmodi apparuit enormis valde. Et tunc 
iste juratus, ut dicit, et aliqui de contestibus suis, tenuerunt 
dictum Nicholaum et ipsos abinvicem seperaverunt, et duxerunt 
eundem Nicholaum seorsum in aula ; et dictus Nicholaus, videns 
quod non potuit accedere ad dictum dominum Willielmum, cla- 
mavit, et dixit ad Thomam famulum suum, tunc ibidem cum uno 
longo cultello extracto existente, " Tu ribalde, interficias tu ip- 
sum dominum Willielmum, falsum presbyterum/* Quo dicto, 
idem Thomas festinanter, in quantum potuit, currendo usque 
dictum dominum Willielmum cum cultello suo sic extracto, ad 
occidendum eum, et clamando, asseruit et dixit hujusmodi verba, 
" Vere, false presbiter, tu morieris,^' et prosequebatur eundem 
dominum Willielmum, ita ferociter, usque ad dictos gradus, 
quod idem dominus Willielmus, dum fuit in ascendendo eosdem 



BCCLE8IASTICAL PBOOBEDINOS. 19 

gradus versus cameratn suam, projecit ipsum firactom cultellom 
versns eundem Thomam, pro defensione corporis sui ; et dam 
jactaretar dictos cultellus dictus Hugo, videns dictum domi* 
num Willielmum, quern multum diligebat, in tanto mortis peri- 
culo existentem, volens et nitens ipsum juyare, ut apparuit, cur- 
rebat inter eosdem. Et prcedictus Thomas butavit eundem 
Hugonem violenter versus praedictum cultellum, et sic dictus 
cultellus cecidit super caput ejus et vulneravit eum in capite ; 
de quo ictu idem Hugo oecidit. Et dum idem Thomas, tam 
propter ictum dicti cultelli et casu ejusdem Hugonis fuit atto- 
nitus et pro parte turbatus a persecutione sua, dictus dominus 
Willielmus attingebat ad cameram suam^ et apperiens hostium 
ejusdem cum festinacione ipsam intravit, ab eodem fugiendo, et 
dausit hostium inter eosdem. Et dicit, requisitus, quod credit 
quod dictus Hugo es: ictu illo infra duos dies moriebatur — 
dictus dominus Willielmus fuit ita inangulatus super gradus 
prsedictos, qui sunt in angulo dictee aulee constituti, quod nisi 
dictus Thomas fuisset ex causis prsemissis turbatus dictum 
dominum Willielmum interfedsset tunc ibidem* 

Johannes Barkman, »tatis 30 annorum — ^prasens fuit — ^una 
cum quampluribus de familia domini Episcopi Dunelmensis et 
aliis in aula praedicta, stantibus et adinvicem coUoquentibus, et 
inter caetera audivit subito quendam Nicholaum de Skelton^ 
domicellum^ prorumpere in grossa verba, et inferre minas qui* 
busdam de fa milJ A, quod frangeret capita eorundem, et dominus 
WilUelmus de Beverlaco, cui custodia aulae et in ipsa minis- 
trantium^ ac correctio et castigatio delinquentium in eadem, ac 
universalis supervisio ejusdem et pertinentium ad eam, loco 
senescalli, a dicto domino Episcopo fuerat commissa^ dum fuit 
in eundo versus cameram, etc., ut supra. 

Willielmus de TGrayne atatis 40 annorum. 

Johannes de Stokton aetatis 26 annorum, etc., and other wit- 
neftes. 

9 Jan. 1370. In capella venerabilis patris domini Thomff^ 
Dei gratia Dunelmensis episcopi, infra manerium suum de 
Aukland— coram eodem venerabiU Patre, ibidem pro tribunali 

c 2 



to DBPOSITIONI AND OTHKR 

8edente~-idem dominus Willielmns de Beyerlaoo optulit se 
paratum ad pnrgandmn se super et de inflixione yulneris mor- 
talis — cum dominis Johanne de Henle rectore ecclesis de 
Seggefeld, Hugone de Westwyk rectore ecdesisB de Eggeles- 
clify Henrico de Graspeis prebendario in ecdesia collegiata 
de Auklandj Johanne de Batisforth rectore ecclesiee de Ellewyk^ 
Thoma de Doffeld rectore ecclesisB de Blofeld, Johanne atte 
Lee prebendario in ecclesia collegiata Langcestre, Willielmo 
de Brantyngham vicario ecdesiae de Kellowe, Johanne de 
Oalewey prebendario in ecclesia collegiata Aukland^ Johanne 
Drawlace^ Roberto Gaynford, Ricardo de Bedlington, Willielmo 
Gudynough, Petro de Burdews et Johanne de Newsom^ pres- 
biteris. 



XIX. Sbntbncia in causa accipitbis. [Reg. Hatf. 116.] 

Thomas, etc. dilectis in Christo filiis nniversis archidiaconis, 
officialibus, decanis, et coram ministris, necnon rectoribus, 
capellanis parochialibus et aliis quibuscunque nostris subditis, 
per civitatem et diocesim Dunolmensem, salutem, etc. Sua 
nobis Philippus de Nevyle suggestione monstravit, quod qui- 
dam iniquitatis filii, Deum prse oculis non habentes, quorum 
nomina ignorantur, quondam aucipitrem magni • preecii ad 
eundem Philippum pertinentem tenent, detinent, et occultant, 
scienter et temere ac maliciose, contra voluntatem dicti Philippic 
in animarum suarum periculum, ac dicti Philippi preejudicium 
non modicum et gravamen ; super quod idem Philippus nobis 
humiliter supplicavit, quod de remedio aliquo in bac parte com- 
petenti, ex officii nostri debito, provideremus eidem. Quocirca 
vobis — mandamus quatenus moneatis — ^preedictos detentores — 
palam et publice, in quibuscunque ecclesiis, diebus dominicis et 
aliis festivis, inter missarum solempnia — quod infra decem dies 
— prcedictum aucipitrem — ^restituant — ^Et si parere contempse- 
rint, ipsos — ^majoris excommunicationis sententia percellatis.-— 
Data apud Auldand, 28 Dec. 1376. 



■CCLBSIA8TICAL PROOBBDINGI. 21 



XX. Sentbntia Oeneralis in causa avium voc. Mbb- 

LiONs. [Reg* Hatf. f. 142^ b.] 

« 

Thomas, etc., dilectis fiUis, unirersis archidiaconis, etc. 
Sua nobis Robertus Todde suggestione monstraviti quod qui- 
dam iniquitatis filii, Deum pree ocolis non habentes, quorum 
nomina ignorantur, nostram forestam de Werdall, absque con- 
sensu nostro, aut dicti Roberti, custodis ejusdem forestae, sunt 
ingressi; et quasdam ayes, yulgariter nuncupatas merlions, 
clam et furtive de dicta foresta abstulerunt, ac nidificaciones 
hujusmodi avium earundem maliciose destruxerunt, in animarum 
suarum grave periculum etc. (Then follows the order for 
excommunication in the form above.) Aukland, 24 June^ 
1378. 



XXI. 9 SUBMISSIO CUJUSDAM FRATRI8 SUPBR LITE INTBR 

ViCARiuM Novi Castri et Priorem Domus Carmeli- 

TARUM DE OBLACIONE CANDELARUM IN DIE PuRIFICA- 

ciONis. [Reg. Lang. fol. 119.] 

Decimo septimo die mensis Februarii, anno Domini Mille- 
simo ccccxxiiij, comparuerunt coram domino, infra manerium 
suum de Aukland, magister Willielmus Olym, perpetuus vica- 
lius beati Nicholai villee Novi Castri super Tynam, et frater 
Willielmus Boston, prior domus Carmelitarum villsd prsedictee, 
super quibusdam articulis per eos ministratis, oblacionem can- 
delarum cerearum in die Purificacionis beatee Mari® concem- 
entibus; et, visis summarie per dominum articulis hujusmodi, 
habuerunt diem ad comparendum coram domino in Cathedra 
Sancti Petri tunc proxime sequente, in capella majori infra 
manerium prsedictum, ad faciendum super dictis articulis quod 
justicia suaderet ; qua die utraque pars communi consensu se 
voluntarie asseruit velle comparere. Quo die Sancti Petri in 
Cathedra, xxij die mensis pr®dicti, dicti magister Willielmus 
Olym et frater Willielmus Boston, prior prcedictus, comparue- 



22 DBP08IT10N8 AND OTHBR 

runt coram domino, in loco pnedicto; nbi vicarius pnedictos 
exhibnit quosdam articulos, videlicet vij, quorum articulorum 
quinque primos dictus Prior simpliciter negavit, seztum arti- 
culum fatebatur et contenta in eodem, hoc solo exceptor quod^ 
ubi ponituT privandus, asseruit se dixisse privabilis. Ultimum 
yero articulum dicit quod non credit. £t eodem die idem frater 
WiUielmus optulit se probaturum contenta in quadam scedula 
papirea, propria manu sua scripta^ quam primo die quo com-> 
paruit exhibuit, super materia antedicta, petens sibi terminum^ 
videlicet primum diem mensis Marcii proxime tunc sequentem^ 
ad fundandum se et probandum contenta in dicta scedula, ut 
prsemittiturj dicto die. Submisit se insuper dictus frater Wil- 
lielmus et se subjecit voluntati domini tunc ibidem, asserens 
humiliter, sponte et voluntaries se velle corripi et eciam corrigi, 
juxta voluntatem et arbitrium domini, si in fundacione et pro- 
bacione deficeret prsedictorum in termino assignato. Quo 
termino adveniente, quia nichil probavit de preedictis, igitur 
dominus sibi injunxit, quod, die Palmarum proxime tunc 
sequenti, revocaret dictam suam conclusionem in forma hie 
sequenti et etiam in forma superius scripta in registro. 

Reoocacio de qua supra fit mencio. 

I, frere William Boston, of the* order of Cannes, knowlaige 
fully and upynly that the offeryng of candels upon Candelmeak- 
day, the which er wonnet to be oflFeret in paryssh kirks, of 
custume convenience and lawe approvet, awe to be gifen and 
offireret in the paryssh kirkes where the peple is bonden be 
custume and lawe to receiyve tbaire sacrament}. And it 
forthinkesf me that any occasion should bee 3even by me in 
derogacion and hinderyhg of the custume and use approvet 
aforesaide, and that any man shuld by wordes conceyve any 
thyng prively or openly unto the hynderyng or withdrawyng of 
the foresaide offeryng. And it forthyngeth me that I have in 

* We use the modem th instead of tbej* in this document. 

t In the Latin form referred to, which occurs at p. Ill, this word is translated 
pcBUitet. 



SCCLB81ASTI0AL PB0CEKDING8. 23 

this matirs any worde of hastinesse or malice saide or movet 
a3ein any curet that more sfaewet steryng to debate thanne 
noryashyng of love and charitee. And this I say by the decree 
and ordinance of our worshipfull fadre my lorde of Duresmej 
ordinary of this diocyse, with myn owen hert and mouth I 
afferme the same^ to this ende that I have for3evene88e of that 
I have saide ; and, as saint Austyn sayth, bettre is an erroure 
and dafante to bee correct and amendit thanne with folye to 
bee sustenet and defendet 



XXII. — S£NTBNCIA. 

Sentencia excommunicationis against persons unknown, for 
cutting down an ash tree in the church-yard of Bishop Wear* 
mouth. Dated 7 Sep. 1425. [lb. f. 123, b.] 

Sentencia excommunicationis against persons unknown, for 
stealing from the house of Richard Clitherow, Esq., in New* 
castle, sex crateres argenteos coopertos, quorum quidam erant 
deaurati, et quidam argentei tantum, triginta cocliaria argentea, 
unam pixidem pro pulvere, de argento, et duas phialas argenteas, 
quinque mappas, septem manutergia, tria paria linthiaminum^ 
unam murram, et alia res et jocalia. Dat. 7 Apr. 1425. 



XXIII. MONICIO CONTRA DBFERBNTBS FVSTBS, QLADIOS, 

ETC. INFRA ciMiTBRiA. [Rcg. Lang. 169, b.] 

Thomas, etc. dilectis filiis capeOanis parochialibus ecclesias 
nostriB collegiatee de Langchestre— et capellarum prebendalium 
parochiarum de Medemesley et de Essh dependentium ab eadem 
salutem. Clamosa insinuacione ad nostrum pervenit auditum, 
quod nonnulli parochiani vestri ad ecclesias etcapellas preedictas 
pro diyinis officiis audiendis, ut tenentur, confluentes, diversaque 
arma invasiva, videlicet fustes, baculos, gladios, archus et 
sagittas, et alia consimilia in manibus suis gestantes, anna ipsa 
infra dmiteria dictarum ecclesis et capellarum usque ad valvas 



24 DEPOSITIONS AN0 OTHER 

ipsarum eoclesise et capellarum et infra — deferunt^ et contra 
ecclesiae honestatem^ quae caritatis et pacis . doctrix est-— ex 
quorum quidem armorum — delatione dissensiones graves de levi 
exortce dictorum ecclesi® capellarum et cimiteriorum violaciones 
et polluciones scepius sunt secutae^ consimiliaque — ^accidere ti* 
mentur — ^moneatis — ne praesxmiant — alioquin — ad excommuni* 
cationis sententiam procedemus. xij. Jul. 1430. 



XXIV. Indulgentia pro Abbatb Noyi Monasterii. 

[Reg. Lang. f. 2l7» b.] 

Thomas etc. dilectis — abbatibus^ prioribus, capitulis^ archi- 
diaconis^ officialibus^ decanis^ rectoribus^ vicariis perpetuis, 
capellanis parochialibus^et aliis — ^infra nostram Diocesim — Cum^ 
itaque, ut jam ex venerabilis in Christo patris Willielmi abbatis 
Novi Monasterii juxta Morpath, nostrse dioceseos, querulosa 
relacione concepimus^ campanile ecdesiee suae conventualis, 
quod ipse tempore suo cum non modicis sumptibus et expensis 
ipsius domus suae fecerat reparari^ propter subject! operis vetus- 
tatem et latamorum, qui illud construxerant, impericiam, ac 
alias causasy quae de facili provideri non poterant^ subito et ex 
improvise nuper corruit, et campanas pendentes in eodem^ ac 
magnam partem ecclesiae suae^ tarn in cancello quam in navi et 
insulis ejusdem, praedicto campanili ex omni ejus parte adjacen- 
tem^ ac totam fabricam infra ipsam ecclesiam subtus campanile 
illud existentem,penitus disrupit et dissipavit, ad quorum quidem 
campanilis ac campanarum et ecclesiae caeteraeque fabricae, sic 
dissipataram, reparacionem et reedificacionem^ et praedicti 
abbatis et conventus sui^ ac aliorum degencium in eodem loco 
sustentacionem, omnes ipsius monasterii sufficere non poterunt 
facultates^ qui ipsi dispendium importabile finaleque ipsius loci 
exterminium pacientur, nisi eis Christi fidelium elemosinis in 
hac parte benignius succurratur; Vobis igitur universis et sin- 
gulis^ in remissione peccatorum vestrorum^ injungimus ac in vis- 
ceribus nunc Jesu Christi tos obnixius requirimus et horta- 
mur^ quatenus, quotienscunque aliquis predicti monasterii verus 
procurator has litems nostras — seu yeram copiam secuin deferens 



SCCLBSIASTttiAL PROCXBDlNGS. H 

hdyos — accesserit — ad elemosinas — colUgendum — ^benignius ad- 
Diittatis — quadraginta dies indulgentiffi oonoedimua — ^present!- 
bus per quadriennium tantummodo doraturis. Data in manerio 
nostro de Aukland, 7 Mar. 1434-5. 



XXV. LiCENTIA CBLEBRANDI IS OrATORIO PRO ViCARlO 

DB Neuton in GiiBNDALB. [Reg. Laogl. f. 230.] 

Xviii die mensis Aprilis^ 1436, dominus, in manerio suo de 
Auckland, concessit viva voce Thomee Wbityngeham, vicario 
perpetuo ecclesice parochialis de Neuton in Olendale, suae 
dioceseos, tunc ibidem in sua praesentia existenti, licenciam 
celebrandi missas et alia divina officia in quocunque loco securo 
et honesto, ac cultui divino rite disposito, ubicunque, infra 
ipsam parochiam de Neuton et extra ecclesiam suam, durante 
hostilitate Scottorum jam vigente ibidem, dum tamen circa bap- 
tismum puerorum et extremam unctionem decedentium et eorum 
sepulturam, quatenus secure poterit, provideat ; et ipsa et alia 
sacramenta in dicta ecclesia sua parocbianis suis administretpro 
loco et tempore oportunis ; preesentibus magistris Johanne 
Bonour cancellario domini, Christofero Knolles sacrse theolo- 
giae doctore, Johanne Marshall reverendissimi domini J. Ebora- 
censis Archiepiscopi commissario generali, et Thoma Jobur, 
dicto London, notario publico et registratore domini. 



XXYI. MoNicio CONTRA FvRES. [Reg. Langl. f. 249.] 

Decimo die Augusti, 1437^ emanavit mandatum universis 
abbatibus etc., etc., ad denunciandum quosdam iniquitatis filios, 
quorum nomina ignorantur, qui, nocte sequente post diem vene- 
ris secundum diem instantis mensis Augusti, quandam cameram 
in hospicio Johannis Thornton vill® Novi Castri super Tynam, 
quam Johannes Bonour*' de Berwyk super Twedam ad tunc 
hospitatus fuit [intraverunt], etduas cistulas, vulgariter vocatas 

* Probably the same penon who appears in the preoedi&g Licence as the Cbanoel- 
lor of the Bishop of Durham. 



26 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHKB 

trussyngoofres^ siuDinam xx marcarum in auro et amplius, ac 
alia bona ejusdem Johannis, una cum quibusdam scriptis obli-» 
gatoriis^ acquietanciis et aliis diversis evidenciis et scripturisy 
ipsum Johannem concementibus^ in se continentes, subtrax- 
erunt — [Restitution to be made to the Bishop^ the Abbot of 
Alnwick, or the Curate of St. Nicholas in Newcastle, within 
twenty days, under pain of excommunication.] 



xxvii. ext&acts from a book containing the judicial 
Procebdinqs of the Official of the Pbiob and Con- 
vent OF Durham.* 

Capitulum generale domini Prions Dunelmensis celebratum 
in ecclesia Beati Oswaldi, sexto die mensis Octobris, anno 
Domini Millesimo ccccxxxv, per dominum Willielmum Dalton 
Officialem ejusdem domini. 

Sanctse Margarets Dunelm. Johannes Cok tegularius forn. 
cum Agnete del Rydell. Johannes Cok comparuit et fatetur 
crimen; et habet vj fustigaciones circa capellam vj diebus domi- 
nicis ; et monitus est, sub poena xl", ut seipsum, &c. Agnes 
vero correcta est per magistrum Johannem Lethom, commis- 
sarium domini Episcopi ; sed accusatur de facto, de ablacione 
zon®, per Willielmum Couper juniorem. 

Parochia de Hesilden. Johannes Whytyngeham, Thomas del 
Lawe, Johannes Wilkynson, Willielmus Ward, Agnes Lawson, 
Johannes Smyrke, Willielmus Boton, Thomas Lawson, 
operantur diebus dominicis et festis. 

17 Octobris 1435. Sancti Oswaldi. Johannes West forn. cum 

* The Official exercised Archidiaconal jurisdiction in the churches and parishes 
appropriated to the Prior and Conyent, holding Chapters or Visitations of the Clergy, 
and inflicting punishment upon hreach of Ecclesiastical discipline. He generally held 
his court in the church of St. Oswald, but occasionally in the chapel of St. Andrew 
upon Elyet Bridge, and in other churches and chapels within the officialty. The 
style of the court is giyen above. The book before us extends from 1435 to 1456, and 
is chiefly occupied with proceedings in cases of incontinency. 



fiCCLBSlASTICAL PROCBBDING8. 37 

Beatrice Sfaaq>e. Vir est extra. Mnlier habet iij fostigaciones 
circa ecclesiain iij diebus dominicia^ post suam purificationein. 

Witton. Robertas del Hall^ Ricardus Fjtilxwe, Thomas 
Teesdale, WiUielmus Natresse* Robertas Jakson. Isti repara- 
bnnt capellam de Witton competenter ante festum Natalia 
Domini proxime fdtaram, sub pena xx", levandorum ad opus 
ecclesiflc Dmielmensis ad festam Natiyitatis B. Johannis 
BaptistflB proxime fiiturum. 

Wolveston et Bellacis in parochia de Billingham. Robertas 
Barker contraxit matrimoniam et fom. cum Johanna Fawdon 
de Wolveston. Vir fatetor crimen, sed negat matrimoniam con- 
trahi. !Et vir habet iiij fustigaciones, mulier vero ij fustigaciones 
circa ecclesiam de Billingham ; et monentur no conveniant in 
locis suspectisy sub poena xx% et duplici poenitentia. Et postea 
fatebantur vir et mulier matrimonium fuisse contractum, quod, 
coram judice coiifessum, promiserunt facere cito postea solemp- 
nizari in ecclesia de BiUyngham, et sic dimissi sunt. 

1 Feb. 1435. Parochia de Edlyngeham. Margareta Lyndys- 
say contra Johannem de Longcaster, Johannem Somerson, 
Johannem Symson. Difiamata quod fiiit incantatrix, videlicet 
quod ipsa, cum alia muliere, posuit unum stake ad ligandum 
membra virilia ibidem quod non possunt choire. Negavit, et 
purgavit se, cum Agnete Wright, Cristiana Aresom, Alicia 
Fayhar, Emmota Letster, Alicia Newton ; et restituta est ad 
famam. Et Johannes, Johannes, Johannes moniti sunt sub 
posna excommunicationia, quod de cetero talia non prsedicent 
de ipsa. 

Willielmus Redeman contra Marion Armourer. Vir dicit 
quod mulier diffamavit eum, quod ipse fuit fur et latro equorum, 
in comitatu Eboracensi. 

14 Jan. 1436. Adam Gray de Acle. Imponitur sibi quod 
non venit ad ecclesiam suam parochialem, diebus festivalibus, 
prout injunctum fuit sibi in ultima visitacione sub poena 4^, 
tociens quociens, cessante impedimento sive excusatione legi- 



28 BBP08ITI0NS AND OTH8R 

tima. Fatetur, ideo in gratia judicis; et adhuc monitus est 
quodveniat ad eoclesiam diebus dominicis sub poena eadem^ vis. 
4t^, et aliis festivalibns sub poena 2^, fabrics ecclesi» Dunebnensis 
applicanda^ todens quociens* 

1 1 Aprils 1437* Thomas Tesedale^ Ricardus Fynlaw, Robertns 
de Hall, Robertus Jacson, Procuratores capellie de Witton^ 
personaliter comparentes, imponitur eis quod inciderunt in 
poenam, alias impositam villanis de Witton, propter non repa- 
racionem capellee predictee^ in ultima yisitacione. 

11 Dec. 1437* Johannes Todde de Whitworth et Johanna 
Smyth. Vir comparuit. Imponitur sibi quod deliquit cum dicta 
Johanna a tempore quo imponebatur sibi poena esicommunica- 
tionis, et 6* 8^. Fatetur, et habet pro eodem sex fustigationes 
circa forum^ et 8 circa ecclesiam, et abjuravit, &c. sub poena 
20", et sub poena excommuhicationis majoris, et respectuatur 
poena prius appoadta. 

8 Jan. 1437* Willielmus Cowpar, Elizabet uxor, de veteri 
Elvet. Defecerunty tamen judex misericorditer restituit ieos. 

Octob. 1441. Johannes Huchonson de Southshirbum labo- 
ravit cum tribus plaustris in die DecoUacionis Sancti Johannis 
baptistee. Suspen. 

11 Jan. 1441-2. Sancti Oswaldi. Thomas Jonson et 
Matilda Loremer. Mulier comparuit. Fatetur, et habet 3 fus- 
tigaciones circa ecdesiam tunica sua tantummodo induta. Vir 
non citatus. 

Isabella Wardelowe habet puerum cujus pater nescitur. 
Fatetur crimen, et habet 6 fustigationes circa ecclesiam. Mulier 
nupta. 

3 Oct. 1443. Beatrix Atkynson et Margareta Doroyll. Per- 
sonaliter. Imponitur sibi quod metebant in festo dedicationis 
ecdesiee Sancti Oswaldi-— et habent ad purgandum se cutn 6^ 
manu mulierum honestarum, vidnarum suarum. 



■CCLBSIASTICAL PBOCBBDINOS. 29 

I JuL 1445. Thomas Dobynson, Isabella Lame. Viroomparoit 
personaliter. Dicit quod contraxit matrimonium cum Isabella 
per ista yerba, videlicet quod tradidit sibi par sirothecarum et 
unum singulum, in festo Corporis Christi ultimo elapso» dicendo, 
sibi quod ^* Ego do tibi predicta sub ista oondicione quod eris 
mea sponsa." Mulier dicit quod nunquam consensit in virum 
absque consensu parentum — Dicit quod cepit hujusmodi dona^ 
non tamen sub ea condicione. 

Octob. 1446 Mariot de Belton, Isabella Brome. Quod est 
sortilega, et quod utitur ilia arte^ et dicit mulieribus solutis, 
nubere volentibus, quod faciat eas habere quos affectant et 
desiderant habere. Negat, et.habet ad purgandum se cum xij 
manu. Similiter imponitur Isabellie. Negat, et habet ad pur- 
gandum cum iiij manu. 

II Jan. 144 7-S. Johannes Robynson walkar. Imponitur 
sibi quod violavit diem sabbati^ viz. quod laboravit in arte ful- 
lonica, in die Epiphaniee Domini. Fatetur, et submisit se cor- 
rectioni ; et injunctum est quod decetero ita non faciat^ sub 
poena 6«. M. 

16 Feb. 1447-8. Mariot Jacson. Personaliter. Imponi- 
tur sibi quod est incantatrix^ et quod utitur arte incantatricis. 
Et habet ad purgandum se in prox. cum y<* manu^ et restituta 
est pristinee famee. 

21 May^ 1450. Jacobus Dennant Imponitur ei quod fuit 
ad molendinum^ cum pannis suis fullandis^ in die Ascensionis 
Domini. Fatetur; et habet pro causa 3 diebus dominicis quod 
antecedat processionem, lineis indutus^ more poenitentis ; quod 
de cetero abstineat — sub poena \0s. Elimosinario domini 
Prions appUcandorum. 

Octob. 1450. Agnes Bowmer^ nuper de Witton. Non com- 
paruit^ et ideo excommunicatur. Notatur super sortilegium. 
NegiEkt crimen. Item notatur super crimen difiamacionis. Negate 
et habet terminum ad purgandum se in prox. 



so DKPOSITIONS AND OTHKR 

22 Octob. 1450. Alicia Kzdaye notatur de opere festivali 
in septimana Pentecostes. Fatetar crimen^ et injungitar sibi 
quod antecedat proceasioiiein^ more poenitentis^ duobus doini* 
nicis. 

» 

10 June, 1451. Johannes Bartram et Mariot uxor ejus* 
Imponitur eis quod habent certa bona Cellee de Wermoutli. 
25 June. Fatentur se habere 3 crokes, 1 sowme, 1 veru, 1 
hamum, 1 wege ferri, 1 materes; et injunctum est quod ea 
confessata restituant Magistro de Wermouth infra octo dierum 
spadum, sub poena marcee etc. 

28 July, 1451. Isabella Hunter et Katerina Pykryng. Im- 
ponitur quod lavaverunt lineum in die Mariee Magdalence. Fa- 
tentur, et habent ij fustigaciones cum manipulo lini. 

16 April, 1451. Visitacio domini Prions Dunelmensis per 
Magistrum William Ceton, sacrs theologi® baccalaureum, et 
Magistrum Newton, in utroque jure admissum, in ecclesia 
parochiali de Dalton in Yalle 16 die mensis Aprilis, a.d. 1451. 

Nomina Inquisitorum. John Freman, John de Hall de 
Dalton, John Ohough, Hugo NicoUson de Morton, Rob. 
Fermour de eadem. Will. Mewbum de eadem, Henr. Freeman 
de eadem. Qui dicunt quod chorus ecdesiae est defectivus in 
fenestra una parva. Injunctum est, quod reficeretur, citra 
festum Pentecostes. Item dicunt quod, in quadam Tisitadone, 
compertum fiiit quod Rector ecclesiee contribueret unam capam 
et unum yestimentum pro principalibus festis, et hoc in ilia 
visitacione quam dominus Fisshbum ultimo tenuit. Item 
dicunt quod fons et crismal non serantur. Injunctum est quod 
serantur, citra festum Invencionis Sanctie Crucis proxime futu- 
rum, sub poena G^. Item dicunt quod cimiterium non suffi- 
cienter est in dausura. Injunctum est'^sub poena 20*. 

11 die Augusti, 1451, in Navi Ecdes. Cath. Johannes Gye 
litster, personaliter oomparens, interrogatus in juramento suo^ 
didt quod duxit Elizabetam Mors. Interrogatus an habeat 
aliquam aliam, dicit quod habet aliam, nomine Isabellam Wuld- 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEBDINOS. 31 

wurde, sed est diTorciatus ab ea. Interrogatus qnando duxit 
Elizabetam, dicit circiter quatuor annos. Interrogatus quo 
tempore anni^ dicit dominica prozime post festam Trinitatis^ 
sammo mane, circa horam secundam. Item qui fderunt pre- 
sentes, presbiter et clericus parochialis et frater Elizabet® et 
hujusmodi contrahentes. Interrogatus de missa, utrum fuit 
cum nota vel privata, dicit quod privata. Interrogatus queelibet 
Testes fderunt indutie, dicit quod sanguinei colons ambo. In- 
terrogatus de hujusmodi divorcio inter ipsum et Isabellam 
Wulwarde, uxorem suam, dicit quod quidam Johannes Esbum 
prosequitur modo et prosecutus est per quadriennium jam 
ultimo elapsum, sed nondum sententiam optinuit. Interroga- 
tus de edicione bannorum matrimonii inter ipsum et Elizabeth 
dicit solempnizari fecit illud matrimonium absque aliqua 
edicione bannorum. 

Elizabeta dicit, in juramento suo, quod est conjugata cum 
Johanne Guy. Interrogata de tempore solempnizacionis, dicit 
circa quatuor annos. Interrogata de tempore anni, dicit quod 
quadam die martis post festum Nativitatis Johannis Baptist®. 
Interrogata de colore vestimentorum dicit quod fuerunt 
blodii colons ambo. Interrogata de tempore, dicit mane. 
Interrogata de presentibus, dicit quod presbiter et clericus 
parochialis, et Willielmus Mores et Thomas Mores, fratres 
EUzabetee, et ipsi contrahentes. Interrogata utrum Johannes 
6ye habuit uxorem suam supranominatam superstitem, tem- 
pore solempnizacionis hujusmodi matrimonii inter ipsam Eliza- 
betham et ipsum, dicit quod sic. Interrogata utrum ipsa 
Elizabetha habuit virum superstitem, dicit quod sic. Nomen 
ipsius Robertus Dolly. Interrogata ubi divorciata fuit ab ipso 
Roberto, dicit in ecclesia Sancti Augustini de BristoUe, Nigrorum 
Monachorum, et per WiUielmum Faax, commissarium Episcopi 
Wigorniensis. Interrogata de edicione bannorum hujusmodi 
matrimonii, dicit quod banna non fuerunt edtta, nisi solum 
illo die quo solempnizari procuraverunt hujusmodi matrimo- 
nium. 

Inquisicio generalis domini Prions Dunelmensis, tenta in 



32 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

eodesia parochiali de BiUyngham, per dominum WUlidrnttm 
Seton, offidalem ejusdem^ 8 Not. 1451. 

Nomina citatorum. Robertas Bellasys et Johannes Jekyll 
de Billyngham^ Johannes Tailloar et Johannes Thorpe de WoU 
veston, lUcardus Bellasys de Nenton^ Johannes White et Jo* 
hannes Shiphirde de Cowpon. 

In primis, dicunt, quod canoellos ecdesie est defectivus in 
tectura, et quod pluit circa altare et quasi per totum latus ejus- 
dem cancelli. 

Item, quod Willielmus Dalby de Billingham utitur quasi 
communiter servili opere, et mercaturam tenet extra cime- 
terium, in diebus festis et in die Elzaltacionis Sanctse Crucis. 
Habuit duas mulieres yentilantes grana tempore matutinorum. 

Item, dicunt quod Johannes Lowson senior, de Billingham, 
Thomas Milner, Willielmus Lowson junior, et Johannes Low- 
son junior, ex oonsuetudine piscantur pro salmonibus capien- 
dis, in diebus dominicis et festis. 

Item, dicunt quod Robertus Goose de Billingham, scissor, 
non servat dies festos, sed in ipsis opera frequentat servilia. 

Wolveston. Item dicunt quod Thomas Kirkham et Johannes 
Hunter de Billingham falcarunt quoddam pratum in die Sancti 
Bartholomei, recipiendo salarium pro eodem,pluribus videntibus. 

Item, quod Johannes Bell de Wolveston, scissor, pro opera 
servili, eo quod in die Animarum consuit vestes, etc. 

Cowpon. Item quod Robertus Woderofe, Johannes Mar- 
chall, Thomas Sheroton, Johannes Lawe, Willielmus Tuggell^ 
frequentant marcaturam de Rypon et Tarum in Quadragesima, 
in diebus Dominicis, ecdesia parochiali relicta. 

Item, dicunt quod Agnes uxor Thomce Johnson de Billing- 
ham est inobediens in lecto et mensa, et multum obstinata 
marito suo. 

25 Nov. 1451. Thomas Kirkham, Johannes Hunter. Per- 
sonaliter comparuerunt. Imponitur sibi quod falcarunt in die 
Sancti Oswaldi. Fatentur, et uterque eorum habet pro culpa 
quod antecedat prooessionem, iiij fustigaciones circa, et habens 
in manu botell feni ; et quod de cetero non exerceat hujusmodi 
operaciones sub pcsna x*. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 33 

15 Dec. 1451. Isabella Mousse. Imponitur sibi qaod violavit 
festum Sancti Marci^ lavando vestimenta sua. Fatetur, et habet 
pro culpa ij dies ante processionezn, camisiam in manu sua 
habens, et injunctum est — sub poena vj». viij<*. 

23 Mar. 1451-2. Willielmus de le Toune, Johanna Davi- 
son, parochisB de Billyngham. Mulier petit Willielmum in 
virum^ pro eo quod simul contraxerunt matrimonium per haec 
yerba, " I Will' sail wed the Janet at y« kirk dore ;'' et mulier 
respondebat similiter, '^ Will'm, I sail never hafe housbande hot 
the Will'm whille3 ye live/^ Vir negat. In prox. 30 Mar. 
Petit virum mulier ; defecit in probacione sua. Judex remisit 
partes conscientiis suis. Vir habet pro culpa xij fustigaciones 
circa ecclesiam cum candela ponderante dim. lib. 

23 Mar. 1451-2. Joh. Davison, Alicia Davison. Alicia mater 
comparuit. Imponitur sibi quod utitur arte sortilegii, scilicet 
utitur arte medicaF cum plumbo et pecf et ferro c. 

25 May, 1452. Willielmus de Toune. Personaliter compa- 
ruit. Imponitur sibi quod diffamavit Vicarium de Billingham, 
quod revelavit confessionem suam. Fatetur se deliquisse, 
taliter dicendo de persona eo, et pro illo tristis est et paratus 
est petere veniam ab eo pro culpa sua, et juravit petere veniam 
ab eo vicario, juxta formam sibi in scriptis tradendam, infra 
ecclesiam parochialem de Billyngham, proxima die dominica, 
inter missarum solemnizacionem. 

August, 1452. Johanna Smythson, Agnes Thomson. Com- 
paruerunt, et Johanna Smetheson produxit duas testes, viz., 
Johannam Barber et Agnetem Patey, quae contestantur quod 
audierunt ipsam Agnetem publice diifamantem eandem Johan- 
nam de sortilegio, et eciam quod dominus Johannes Smyth, 
capellanus parochialis Sanctae Margaretee, in tantum luxuriatus 
est cum ipsa, quod, propter sibi per ipsum data munera, incar- 
ceratus fuit. Habet ad purgandum se cum iiij^ manu. 

14 Dec. 1452. Thomas Cokke. Judex injunxit sibi iij fustiga- 

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34 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

clones circa Ecclesiam Cathedralem Dundmensem, coram 
domino priore et confratribus, cereum ij.libr. cerse in manu sua 
deferenti. 

Feb. 1452-3. Job. D., procmtttor incolarum etinhabitancimn 
de Elvett, peciit dominum Johannem Ronkhome capellanum 
compelli et coherceri ad interessendum et ministrandum in 
ecclesia S. Oswaldi, in divinis officiis inibi supportandis^ 
et habet ad exhibendum ordinacionem Cantariee sua in 
prox. 

16 Mar. 1452-3. In Registro domini Prions Dunelmensis 
comparuerunt coram M. Willielmo Seton Johannes Palfrayman 
et Ricardus Palfrayman de Edlyngeham^ et penitentias pro suis 
commissis subierunt salutares, videlicet Johannes Palfrayman 
habet iij fastigaciones circa ecclesiam, et solempniter juravit 
quod citra festum S. Marci exiet parocbiam de Edlyngeham^ in 
eadem parochia, durante vita Johannae Branxton, quam prius 
tenuity et cujus prolem de sacro fonte levavit, nullatenus mora- 
turns, nisi prefatam Johannam in locis remotis morari conti- 
gerit, ita quod ad cam accessum habere non poterit unde ali- 
qualis suspicio oriatur, et tunc ad hoc ab Officiali jurisdictionis 
Archidiaconalis domini prioris Dunelmensis licenciam obtinuerit 
specialem. Et Ricardus Palfrayman habet pro suis commissis 
yj fustigaciones circa ecclesiam^ lineis indutus. 

26 Apr. 1453. In capella S. Andreee super pontem de Elvett. 
David Grayden, Alicia uxor ejus pretensa. Vir comparuit, et 
habet pro commisso quod antecedat processionem in ecclesia 
Cathedrali Dunelmensi corum domino priore et confratribus 
iij diebus dominicis, et mulier iij fustigaciones circa ecclesiam 
lineis et tunica induta; et quod abstineant a loco suspecto 
usque diem lunae ad septimanam, et quod interim matrimonium 
solempnizari faciant. 

5 Dec. 1453. Ricardus Wilson, Agnes uxor ejusdem. Vir 
petit divorcium, quia dicit ipsam voluisse interfecisse ipsum 
Willielmum; Mulier peciit ipsum compelli ad heerendum et 



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ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 35 

cohabitandum cum ea, et quod propouat ea^ quae habet pro- 
ponenda contra earn, in debita juris forma, in prox. 

7 Feb. 1453-4. Helena de Inferno (alias morans in inferno) 
alias Meldrome purgat se quod non fomicavit cum quodam de 
parochia de Hert, et quod non receptavit aliquos ad fomican- 
dum in domo sua cum Emmota Sclater. Agnes, in domo 
Helense de Inferno, defecit in purgacione sua. 

March 1453-4. Willielmus Hunter, Robertus Raynton. 
Actor petit pro educacione et alimentacione cujusdam vituli per 
iiij annos viz. pro singulo anno ij*. viij^^. Pars rea negat. 

11 April, 1454. Agnes Hebbume purgat se, quod non habuit 
camisiam competentem, nee potens fuit ad emendum. Postea 
Judex injunxit sibi quod peragat poenitentiam prius injunctam, 
in tunica, habens unam vestem vocatam le napron. 

27 Nov. 1454. Johannes Thomson wever defecit in purga- 
cione sua, et habet pro commisso quod operetur ij diebus ad opus 
ecclesiffi S. Oswaldi, citra Pascha. 

17 Apr. 1455. Parochia de Estmeryngton. Thomas Dawson. 
Imponitur sibi quod non venit ad ecclesiam in diebus dominicis 
et festis. Item quod stetit suspensus a Natale usque Pascha. 
Item quod spoliavit peregrinantes ad Curiam Romanam. Negat 
quemli1)et articulum, et habet ad purgandum in prox. cum vij> 
manu. 

17 Ap. 1455. Robertus Segefeld capellanus, Johanna Bell soror 
uxoris Thomce Coriiforth. Imponitur sibi quod fomicatus est et 
camaliter cognovit Margaretam BeU sororem Thomee Cornforth. 
Fatetur, et habet pro commisso quod in die Veneris stet ad fon- 
tem baptismalem, in capella sanctse Margaret®, nudus caput, 
et legendo super psalterium tempore majoris missse, et quod, ia 
die dominica, tempore altse missee, veniat per chorum ecclesiee 
Cathedralis Dunelmensis, offerenfdo cereum summo altari, et 
yj8 viijd feretro Sancti Cuthberti ; et quod abstineat a peccato 

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36 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHBB 

et loco suspecto sub poena zl* et suspensionis per quarterium 
anni. 

Johannes Coxhou. Imponitur sibi quod non recepit sacra- 
mentum Eukaristiae^ de tempore quo fuit moram trahens apud 
Wytton. Negate et habet ad purgandum se in prox. cum yj^ 
manu. 

Thomas Halyday. Imponitur sibi quod piscabatur in aqua 
de Beurepayr, sententiam majoris excommunicacionis incur- 
rendo. Item quod est communis objurgator cum vicinis. Item 
quod diffamat Inquisitores et dominum Officialem sub certis 
verbis contumeliosis. Negat, et habet ad purgandum se cum 
iiij manu. 

Ricardus Boteler, pincema de Finchall, Agnes Porteyace. 
Imponitur ipsis de crimine fomicacionis. Fatentur^ et habent 
pro commisso, vir vj fustigaciones, et mulier iiij fustigaciones, et 
habent quod abstineant a peccato etiocis suspectis, sub poena vj 
fustigacionum circa ecclesiam et x» per virum et vj* viij<* per 
mulierem, elemosinarise Domini Prions applicandorum^ et quod 
solemnizent matrimonium ante Nativitatem Sancti Johannis 
Baptist® prox. 

1455-6. Memorandum quod^ xxvij die Januarii^ in navi 
Ecclesiae Cathedralis^ comparuit coram Officiali jurisdictionis 
Archidiaconalis domini Prioris Dunelmensis, Johanna Foster 
relicta, ut asseruit, Roberti Foster, et instanter peciit a dicto 
Officiali literas sub sigillo officii ad solempnizandum matrimo- 
nium inter ipsam et Thomam Myddleham de Elvet: qu6e, a 
dicto Officiali requisita^ si habuerit noticiam claram de morte 
predicti Roberti mariti sui, respondet quod sic ; et juravit de 
certa scientia, et adduxit ij testes, videlicet, Ysabellam Elmedon 
et Johannam Waker, quae eciam de certa scientia mortis dicti 
Roberti deposuerunt, tactis sacrosanctis Ewangeliis, presentibus 
domino Johanne Hagyrston capellano, Johanne Spicer, domino 
Edmundo Bell clerico, et aliis. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 3/ 

May, 1455. In navi Eccles. Dunelm. Thomas Kyrkeham, 
Isabella uxor ejusdem. Mulier peciit divortium et sepera- 
cionem a thoro et mensa, propter seeviciam viri. Vir negavit, 
et postea, ex industria Judicis, mulier^ genibus flexis, humiliter 
yeniam peciit a viro, et vir sibi quamcunque prius offensam 
perdonavit^ et deosculatus est earn, et ulterius vir juravit super 
libnim quod non inferet mulieri metum mortis ac mutilacionem 
membrorum. 

4 Dec. 1455. Johannes Blakett, Johannes Thomson, Jo- 
hannes Alanson^ yconomi capellae parochialis de Wytton, per- 
sonaliter comparuerunt. Imponitur ipsis per dominum Judieem 
quod capella ipsa est defectiva et ruinosa in tectura, meremio, 
et aliis. Item quod cimiterium ejusdem non includitur suffi- 
cienter. Et, ad instanciam dictorum yeonomorum, Judex 
decrevit singulos parochianos ipsius capellae citandos fore erga 
prox. super premissis et aliis articulis responsuros. 



XXVIIL MONITIO CONTRA FAMOSOS LATRONES DE TyNDALL 

ET Ryddall. [Reg. Fox, Anno 1498.] 

Ricardus permissione divina Dunelmensis Episcopus dilecto 
nobis magistro Georgio Ogle, artium magistro, necnon universis 
et singulis ecclesiarum parochialium infra Tyndalle et Riddysdal, 
nostree dioceseos constitutarum rectoribus et vicariis, necnon 
capellarum et cantariarum inibi capellanis, curatis et non 
curatis, salutem, &c. Quia, tam fama quam notorietate facti 
referentibus, ad aures nostras delatum est quod nonnuUi villas, 
yillulas^ hamelectas et alia loca de Tyndale et Ryddisdale inha- 
bitantes, nee divina nee humana jura timentes, quibus se illa- 
queatos esse (quod summopere dolemus) intelligunt aut saltern 
intelligere debent, de eisdem villis, villulis, hamelectis ad 
et in episcopatum Dunelmensem et comitatum Northumbrice 
aliaque loca^ dictis locis de Tyndalle et Ryddisdalle confinia 
et adjacentia, latronum, rapientium, ac depraedantium more, 
per diutuma tempora scepe, saepius et saepissime, publice, et 
manifesto, noctu dieque, incurrentes, prout adhuc indies, co- 



38 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

tidie^ saepe, seepius^ et seepissiine, noctu dieque, publice et 
manifeste^ sic incurrunt, fiirta, latrocinia, rapinas, et depre- 
dationes passim committentes, pecora et catalla in eisdem 
inventa furati depreedatique fuerunt, et ab eisdem ad partes 
et territoria de Tyndall et Rydisdalle preedictis, aliaque loca 
eisdem confinia, ab libitum suarum voluntatum asportaverunt^ 
fugaverunt, et abigenint, prout adhuc indies nulli equidem 
alii rei quam, hujusmodi furtis, latrociniis^ rapinis et deprseda- 
tionibus^ dediti, furantur^ depraedantur^ fugant et abigunt. Et, 
quod ipso delicto detenus est, per tabemas, et alia loca publica, 
iniquitatibus, furtis,latrociniis,et depraedationibus suishujusmodi 
gloriantes, se talia commisisse, et de cietero committere, palam 
et publice jactari non desinant ; bisque malis non contend, sed 
potius furtum furto, latrocinium latrocinio^ rapinam rapinse, 
deprsedationem depredationi, aliaque mala malis accumu- 
lantes, in hujusmodi furtorum, latrociniorum, et depreedationum 
aggravationem, non solum ipsi furantur, yerum etiam fures et 
latrones et raptores quoscunque, ad ipsos confugientes, recep- 
tant, nutriunt, hospitantur, confovent et confortant; suosque 
liberos, servientes, atque famulos in hujusmodi latrociniorum, 
furtorum, depraedationum et rapinarum perpetratione, quod 
maxime detestandum est, educant, et exercitant, adeo ut furtum^ 
latrocinium, depraedationem, rapinam, aut robberium hujusmodi 
committere, aut eidem consentire non solum non vereantur, 
sed crassam, immo verius quassitam ignorantiam praetendentes, 
et dictas rapinas, furtum et depraedationes, tanquam artem 
unde victum suum quaerant, publice et manifeste profitentes^ 
crimen esse non agnoscunt : suntque nonnulli viri in partibus 
praedictis, quorum quidam sunt ministri justitiae et regii 
justiciarii, qui eosdem fures, latrones, depredatores, et 
raptores, aliosque malefactores rectificare et justificare 
deberent, quidam vero sunt viri nobiles et potentes in confi- 
nibus et territoriis de Tyndalle et Ryddisdalle praedictis, aliisque 
villis et locis eisdem convicinis, circumvicinis, et adjacentibus 
degentes et commorantes, qui fures, latrones, raptores et de- 
praedatores praedictos ab hujusmodi criminibus praedictis 
refraenare et impedire possent, si suas ad id manus, ut deberent, 
porrigerent adjutrices. Quorum ominum, videlicet justitiae 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 39 

ministrorum^ et aliorum^ saltern nobilium et potentium, in par- 
tibus et territoriis de Tyndalle et Ryddysdalle preedictis^ aliis- 
que villis et locis eisdem convicinis et circamvicinis adjacentium, 
qaidam conniventi oculo^ quidam ex pacto et coUusione^ quidam 
yero propter lucrum quod cum eis participant, nonnidli siqui- 
dem propter amorem, favorem, familiaritatem, affinitatem, et 
sanguinis conjunctionem, necnon nominis idemptitatem hujus- 
modi furtis, latrociniis, rapinis, et depreedationibus aliquando 
talcite, interdum etenim expresse consentientes, fures ipsos, 
latrones, et deprsedatores per eorum terras et districtus cum 
rebus^ pecoribus et catallis, quae furati sunt, liberum habere 
transitum scienter tolerant et permittunt; ac nonnunquam 
eosdem cum rebus, pecoribus et catallis raptis, depreedatis, et 
furtive ablatis, receptarunt, prout adhuc in dies recipiunt et 
receptant, non ignorantes receptatores hujusmodi quoscunque, 
non minori poena dignos quam raptores, fures, latrones et prse- 
dones. Nam si non esset, qui foveret, reciperet et comfortaret, 
nullus rapinam, latrocinium, deprsedationes hujusmodi com- 
mitteret, committereve auderet. Eodem quoque delicto singulas 
villas, viUulas, hamelectas dictarum partium de Tyndall et 
Ryddisdall laborare intelleximus, quod maxime abhorrendum 
est: nam latrones, fures, raptores, deprsedatores famosos et 
manifestos, sic, ut praefertur, recipiunt, hospitantur, fovent et 
nutriunt, ac inter eos, et cum eisdem, in partibus preedictis, ut 
vicinos suos famiUares habitare permittunt, et ad eadem faci- 
nora reiteranda invitant et confortant, publice, palam et mani- 
feste; compluresque capellanos ssepenominatarum partium et 
territoriorum de Tyndalle et Ryddysdalle, publicos et mani- 
festos concubinarios, irregulares, suspenses, excommunicates et 
interdictos, necnon literarum penitus ignaros, adeo ut per de- 
cennium celebrantes nee ipsa quidem verba sacramentalia, uti 
quibusdam eorum opponentiis* experti sumus, legere sciant; 
nonnullos etiam non ordinatos, sed sacerdotii efGgiem duntaxat 
praetendentes, non modo in locis sacris et dedicatis verum etiam 
in prophanis et interdictis ac miserabiliter ruinosis, necnon 
vestimentis ruptis, laceratis et foedissimis, non divino immo nee 

* Opponencies, Examinations. The word is still in use in the Universities. 



40 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

humane officio aut servitio dignis^ quasi Deum contemnentes 
induti^ divina celebrare sacraque et sacramentalia ministrare in- 
telleximus. Dicti preeterea capellani, supradictis fuiibus^ latroni- 
bus^ deprcedatoribus, receptatoribus et raptoribus manifestis et 
famosis sacramenta et sacramentalia ministrant, sine debita 
restitutione, aut animo restituendi^ ut ex facti evidentia constat ; 
sicque eos^ sine cautione de restituendo^ ecclesiasticee sepulturae^ 
cum ex sacrorum canonum et sanctorum patrum institutis ha^; 
facere districte prohibentur^ passim committunt^ in animarum 
suarum grave periculum^ aliorumque Christi fidelium exemplum 
perniciosum^ pluiimorumque spoUatorum et privatorum bonis, 
rebus, pecoribus et catallis suis hujusmodi damnum non modi- 
cum et gravamen. Nos, igitur, animarum hujusmodi malefac- 
torum saluti providere cupientes, spoliatorumque et privatorum 
hujusmodi jacturis et dispendiis paternali affectu compatientes, 
et, quantum in nobis est, remedium in bac parte apponere, ut 
tenemur, volentes, vobis omnibus et singulis rectoribus, vicariis, 
capellanis, curatis et non curatis praedictis, tenore prsesentium, 
in virtute sanctse obedientice firmiter injungendo mandamus, 
quatenus, proximis diebus dominicis et festivis, inter missarum 
et aUorum divinorum solemnia, in ecclesiis et capellis vestris, 
dum major in eisdem aderit populi multitudo, omnes et singulos 
fures, latrones, raptores, prcedones, depreedatores, et eos pree- 
sertim quos famosos et manifestos latrones, raptores, et deprse- 
datores fuisse et esse intelleximus, quorum nomina in preesenti 
rescripto sunt descripta, peremptorie moneatis, quos nos etiam, 
tenore preesentium, primo, secundo et tertio, ac peremptorie, 
monemus, ut ipsi omnes et singuli ab hujusmodi incursionibus, 
furtis, latrociniis, rapinis, depraedationibus de ceetero se absti- 
neant et desistant, sub poena majoris excommunicationis sen- 
tentiae, quam ex sacrorum canonum institutis incurrunt, sicque 
eos, et eorum quemlibet, incurrere volumus ipso facto. Citetis 
insuper, seu citari faciatis, peremptorie, omnes et singulos 
famosos et manifestos fures, latrones, raptores, et depraedatores, 
quorum nomina sunt in dorso praesentis schedulae sive rescripti 
descripta, et eorum quemlibet, quod compareant, sicque quilibet 
eorum compareat, coram nobis aut nostro in hac parte commis- 
sario, in Galilea Ecclesiae nostroe Cathedralis Dunelm. locoque 



ECCLBSIASTICAL PBOCBEDINGS. 41 

consistoriali ejusdem, sexto die post citationem^ eis, et eorum 
cuilibet^ in hac parte factam, si juridicus fuerit, alioquin proximo 
die juridico ex tunc sequente, quo die nos aut commissarium nos- 
trum hujusmodi ibidem ad jura reddenda bora consueta pro tri- 
bunali sedere contigerit, certis articulis et interrogatoriis meram 
animarum suarum salutem et correctionem concernentibus, 
eisdem^ et eorum cuilibet^ in eorum adventu, ex officio nostro 
mero objiciendis^ personaliter responsuri et parituri. Moneatis 
insuper, sic ut pr8Bmittitur,peremptorie, omnes et singulos minis- 
tros justitifiB cseterosque viros nobiles et potentes dictas partes et 
territoria de Tyndall et Ryddysdall et loca vicina et circumja- 
centia inhabitantes^ necnon omnes et singulos capellanos curatos 
et non curatos in eisdem partibus et territoriis deTyndall et Ryd- 
dysdall divina celebrantes, quatenus ipsi justitise ministri et viri 
nobiles et potentes omnes et singulos fures et latrones^ necnon 
raptores et depraedatores, in et ad partes et territoria de Tyn- 
dall et Ryddysdall cum rebus pecoribus et catallis furtive abla- 
tis confugientes^ necnon omnes et singulos fures^ latrones et 
depraedatores in eisdem partibus et territoriis de Tyndall 
et Ryddysdall commorantes et degentes^ saltern famosos^ 
publicos^ notorios et manifestos, nidlatenus foveant, nutriunt 
aut confortent, hospitentur. aut manuteneant, immo eosdem 
fures, latrones et depredatores quoscunq. ab eisdem partibus et 
territoriis de Tyndall et Ryddysdall amoveant, sicque amoveri 
faciant et procurent, seu saltem eosdem fures, latrones, deprae- 
datores et raptores quoscunque capiant, sicque capi facient 
eosdemque rectificent et justificent. Capellani vero, curati et 
non curati, in eisdem partibus et territoriis divina celebrantes, 
hujusmodi fures, latrones et depraedatores, saltem publicos, no- 
torios et manifestos, ad sacramenta poenitentiee, eucharistiae^ 
sepulturae, cseteraque sacramenta aut sacramentalia, sine debita 
restitutione spoliatis facta, aut sufficiente cautione de resti- 
tuendo praestita, nisi in mortis articulo, et tunc ad sacramenta 
poenitentiaB et eucharistiae duntaxat, non autem ad sepulturam, 
sub pcena suspensionis ab officio et beneficio nullatenus admit- 
tant. 

[Desiderantur sequentia et conclusioy cum Tranagressorum 
nominibtiSy propter hiatum quinque foliorum in Registro.'] 



42 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 



XXIX. Testimonialis Litbra Domini Episcopi super 

ABSOLUTIONE QUORUNDAM LATRONUM, NECNON INJUNC- 

TiONBS FACTJB EisDEM. [lb. Anno 1498.] 

Ricardus^ permissione diyina Dunelmensis Episcopus^ tini- 
versis et singulis rectoribus, vicariis, capellanis^ curatis et non 
curatis^ quibuscunque, curam animarum habentibus^ infra terri- 
torium de Tyndall et Ryddysdall, nostras dioceseos^ salutem, 
gratiam et benedietionem. Sciatis Sandy Charelton^ Crysty 
Milbom^ Howy Milbome^ Atkin Millborne, filium Willielmi 
Milbom, Laury Robeson, Davey Robeson, Sandy Robeson, 
Qilly Dod of y« Crake, alias of Smebemouth, George Dod, 
Rouly Dod, Barmy Dod, Sandy Dod of the Shawe, George 
Marshall, Sandy Hunter, a sententia excommunicationis, quam 
in eosdem pro eorum contumacia promulgavimus, per nos abso- 
lutos esse, et communioni hominum ac sacris eeclesiee restitu- 
tos, seque nostrse correctioni humiliter submittentes, injunc- 
tiones salutaremve suscepisse poenitentiam, videlicet ut de 
csetero rapinam furtum aut latrocinium publice manifeste vel 
occulte non committant, nee aliquis eorum committat, aut talia 
committenti auxilium, consilium vel favorem prsestent, nee ali- 
quis eorum preestet, seu talia committentium consilium quovis- 
modo celent seu celet, celarive procurent seu procuret. Item, 
quod, post diem Mercurii proxime futurum, viz. 2^ diem men- 
sis Septembris jam instantem, non incedant, nee aliquis eorum 
incedat, pedes aut eques, indutus subicinio, Anglice a Jacke, aut 
galea, Anglice a Salet or a Knapescall^ aut aliis armis defensivis 
quibuscunque, nee equitent, aut eorum ahquis equitet, super equo 
aut equa, cujus valor communi hominum eestimatione excedet 
vj*. viij<^. nisi contra Scotos, vel alios regis inimicos. Injungimus 
praeterea quod postquam ingressi fuerint, vel eorum aliquis in- 
gressus fuerit,ccBmiterium ecclesiee vel capellae cujuscunque, infra 
territorium de Tyndall etRiddesdall, ad divina inibi audienda, vel 
orationes inibi faciendas, seu alia quaecunque facienda abjiciant 
seu deponant, sicque eorum quilibet abjiciat et deponat, arma 
invasiva qusecunque, si quae habeant, si ad longitudinem unius 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 43 

cubiti se extendant^ et quamdiu fueiint^ seu aliquis eorum faeiit 
infra eandem ecclesiam seu capellam aut coemeterium ejusdem^ 
cum nullo sermonem aut verbum habeat nisi cum curato aut 
sacerdote illius ecclesisB yel capellse, sub poena excommunica- 
cionis majoris, quam in eos et eorum quemlibet, casu quo his 
nostiis injunctionibus aut uni earum non paruerint^ cum effectu 
exnunc prout extunc et extunc prout exnunc promulgamus in 
scriptis^ justitia mediante. Vobis igitur omnibus et singulis^ 
in virtute sanctae obedientiee firmiter injungentes mandamus, 
quatenus banc poenitentiam, sive has injunctiones excommuni- 
cacionisque decretum, sic, ut prefertur, in contrafacientes quos- 
cunque omnes et singulos fuhninatum in ecclesiis seu capellis 
yestris proximo die festo cum major aderit populi multitude in 
eisdem, ut non parentes ab omnibus Christi fidelibus tanquam 
excommunicati evitari possint, declaratis declararive faciatis. 
Vobis quoque firmiter injungentes mandamus, ut, si quem seu 
quos, ex supranominatis hiis nostrisve earum alicui injunctio- 
nibus contrafacientem, seu contrafacientes, inveneritis, eum seu 
eos sic contrafacientem seu contrafacientes hujusmodi proximo 
die festo in ecclesiis seu capeUis vestris, inter missarum et alio- 
rum divinorum solempnia, cum major in eisdem aderit populi 
multitude, publice denunciatis excommunicatum seu excom- 
municatos, nomenque et cognomen sic contrafacientis et excom- 
municati, seu nomina et cognomina sic contrafacientium et 
excommunicatorum, nobis aut nostro commissario general!, 
nobis in remotis agentibus, infra viij dies proxime et immediate 
sequentes a tempore denunciacionis vestree hujusmodi, ubicun- 
que infra nostram Dunelmensem diocesim tunc fuerimus, seu 
hujusmodi commissario nostro generali, nobis, ut prcefertur, in 
remotis agentibus significantes. Data in castro nostro de Nor- 
ham, sub sigillo nostro, xxv die mensis Septembris, Anno Do- 
mini Millesimo CCCC nonagesimo viij, et nostree translacionis 
anno quarto. 



44 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 



XXX. DiSPENSACIO AD SOLEMPNIZANDUM MaTRIMONIUM 

IN CAPELLA. [Reg. Fox, f. 38.] 

Rogerus Laybomein sacra Theologia bacallaureus, Reverendi 
in Christo patris et domini Ricardi, permissione Divina 
Dunelmensis episcopi, extra suam diocesim in remotis agentis^ 
Vicarius in spiritualibus generalis, dilecto nobis in Christo De- 
cano decanatus de Lanchestre, ipsiusve vices gerenti, salutem 
in Domino. Cum, nt accepimus, dilecti nobis in Christo Jo- 
hannes Hall de Middleham Episcopi, et Isabella Tempest, filia 
Roberti Tempest de parochia de Lanchestre predicta, ab omni 
contractu matrimoniali et sponsalicio liberi et immunes, matri- 
monium purum, verum et legitimum, per verba ad hoc apta, 
mutuum eorum consensum hinc inde exprimentes ad invicem 
contraxerunt, iUudque in facie ecclesise solempnizatum obtinere 
proponunt et intendunt, quumque ipsi eorumque parentes 
tum propter aeris pestiferi intemperiem, turn propter imbecilli- 
tatem corporum, ad eorum ecclesiam parochialem predictam 
accedere minime audent aut valeant, ut matrimonium, ut dicitur, 
legitime inter eosdem Johannem et Isabellam contractum in 
capella infra manerium de Homesid, de parochia de Lanchestre 
predicta situata, solempnizare, bannis tamen prius inter eosdem 
Johannem et Isabellam per tres dies solempnes inter se dis- 
tantes, ut moris est, intra missarum solempnia editis, prout 
jura exigunt, dum tamen aliud canonicum non obstat, vobis ex 
causis premissis, et aliis nos moventibus, licenciam tenore pre- 
sentium concedimus specialem. Dat. 7 Aug. 1500. 



XXXI. Causa hereseos. [Reg. Tonstall, fol. 86.] 

Decimo quarto die mensis Novembrisj Anno Domini mille- 
simo quingentesimo tricesimo primo> in capella infra manerium 
de Awkelande, comparuit Rogerus Dichaunte de Novo Castro 
super Tynam, mercator, coram domino Episcopo sedente 



ECCLESIASTICAL PBOCBEDINOS. 45 

ibidem pro tribunali^ ubi erat detectus ^ et suspectus de heresi 
et tandem convictus, et coram domino Episcopo et multis aliis 
confessus, et solempniter abjuravit snam heresim, et primo die 
mensis Deeembris dominus injunxit sibi poenitenciam. 

Abjuracio Rogeri Dichaunte Vtlke Novi Castri super Tynam 

mercatoris, 

IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. I Roger Dichaunnte, 
of the Diocese of Duresme, of the Parishe of All Halowes in 
the Town of Newcastle, suspecte and detectef byfore yow^ 
Reverende fadir in God Cuthberte bishop of Duresme, mye 
ordinarie in that byhalfe» and manyfestlye convicted of certayne 
Articles of heresye hereafter folowinge, Wyllynge to retoume 
too our mother holye churche, and too forsaike all maner errores, 
l^eryses, and evill opynyons contrarye too the catholike doctrine 
of Christes churche and the see Apostolike, doo confesse mye 
self too be giltie, and that I have grevouslye offendyd and erred 
in dyverse articles, contrarye too the doctrine of Holy Chm-che, 
otherwise than a good christen man owght to have done. And 
chefelye and naymelye in thiese articles, that is too saye. That 
there is no purgatorye after that a man is deade. And that it is 
but folye too praye for them that bee deade; Also that the 
sacrifice of the Messe is not acceptable too God, but rather 
stirithe the ire of God, and crucifiethe Christe of newe ; Also 
that it is but vayne to praye to Sanctes, bicause Christe is 
onelye our mediator; Also that, because we be justified by 
faythe, no good worke nether commaundyd bye God nor in- 
ventyd bye man can maike us acceptable too God ; Also that 
man haithe noo fre wyll, but all thinges be done bye necessite, 
soo that it is not in the power of man too doo good ore too 
eschewe evyll ; Also that everye christen man is a preste, and 
haithe power to consecrate the Bodye of our Lorde, and too 
doo all other thinges which prestes alone now use too doo; 
Also that everye preste myght and owght too be maryed ; And 
also that all the lyfe of relygiose men lyvinge in their cloysters 
is but ypocrisye, and therfor all monasteryes owght too be pullyd 

* Informed against. f Informed against. 



46 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHEB 

down. Whiche foresaide heryses and errors I the foresaide 
Roger Dichaunnte have holdyn wrytten spokon and also de- 
fendyd boithe to the grevouse daunnger of myne owne sowUe 
and also too the perillouse example of odyr christen people. 
All whiche foresaid errores heryses and dampnable opynyons 
inspeciall, with all other heryses in generally beynge contrarye 
too the catholike doctrine of our mother holye churche^ and 
the see ApostoUk^ I the foresaide Roger Dichaunnte here byfore 
All myghtye God^ the holy companye of all the sayntes in 
hevon^ and byfore yow Cuthbert bisshop of Duresme myne 
ordinarye openly and manifestly doo forsaike renounce abjure 
and detest; fullye myndynge and by thies holy Evangelies here 
by me bodelye touchit swerynge and faithfuUye promysinge 
never too reatorn too the saide errores hereses or opynyons 
ore too anye of them, ore too odj^ lyke, contrarye too the de- 
terminacion of our mother holye churche; And also if that I 
shall knowe hereafter anye persone ore persones too be gyltie 
ore fawtie of any heryses or erroures contrarye to the doctryne 
of our mother holye churche I shall not conseile them, agre 
unto them, ore associate them in there erroures, but I shall 
detecte and geve knowlege of them frome tyme too tyme too 
there ordinaries for there reformacione as sone as I shall have 
knowlege of them and have commodite therunto, Mooste hum- 
blye and mekely submittinge mye self for myn heynose and 
grevouse offenses to the mercy of God Allmyghtie and refor- 
macion of holye Church too you myn ordynarye, desyerynge 
you of absolucion and penance for the foresaide myn offences, 
whiche penance here opynlye byfore Almyghtye God and the 
holy companye of all sayntes and also you myn ordynarye 
I doo promise withe humble contrite and meke herte too per- 
fourme and fulfyll, soo help me God and theise holye Evange- 
lyes. In witnes wherof too this myn op3rn promyse and abju- 
racion I have with mye hande set too the synge of the holy 
crosse and subscribet my nayme. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 47 



XXXII. CoRBECTio. 2 Dec. 1531. Injonxit Willielmo 
Fayerellers dominus^ pro culpa offensae et fomicacionis cum 
Margareta Hunter, viz. unam fustigacionem, die Sabbati 
proximo^ pannis lineis tantummodo induto^ circa forum Dunelm. 
dieque dominica tunc proxime^ coram processione solempni, cum 
una cerea in manu sua, eodemque modo die dominica tunc 
immediate sequente. [A] 

XXXIII. Sentence in a Marriage Cause. 1531. In 
Dei nomine. Amen. Nos Robertus Hyndemers, Juris utriusque 
doctor^ Reverendi in Christo patris et domini domini Cuthberti 
permissione divina Dunelmensis episcopi in temporalibus Can- 
cellarias, ac in spiritualibus Officialis principalis, rimato per 
nos toto et integro processu in quadam causa matrimoniali inter 
Anthonium Lodesman, partem agentero, ex una, et Johannam 
Laxe^ partem ream et confitentem, ex altera, coram nobis pen- 
dente indecisa legitime procedentes, ad sententiam nostram 
diffinitivam sive finale decretum in hac parte ferendum pro- 
cedimus in hujusmodi, qui sequitur, modum. In Dei nomine 
Amen. Quia per acta inactitata, deducta, perducta, exhibita et 
confessata, in hac parte, comperuimus luculenter et invenimus 
dictum Anthonium Lodesman intencionem suam in quadam 
summaria peticione coram nobis sufficienter et legitime fundasse 
et probasse, quam peticionem pro hie insertam et perlectam 
haberi volumus, de jurisperitorum consilio^ cum quibus in hac 
parte communicavimus, ac ipsum solum Deum prse ocuUs nos- 
tris habentes, in presencia partium predictarum, justiciam fieri 
et sentenciam ferri instanter petendum, dictam Johannam Laxe 
prefato Anthonio Lodesman in uxorem, et eundem Anthonium 
eidem Johannae in virum adjudicamus, pro vero, justo et legi- 
time matrimonio, inter eosdem per verba de preesenti legitime 
contracto, illudque in facie ecclesiee solempnizandum fore de- 
crevimus^ per banc nostram sententiam diffinitivam, sive finale 
decretum^ quam, sive quod, ferimus et promulgamus in hiis 
scriptis. [A] 



48 DBPOSITION8 AND OTHBR 

XXXIV. CoRRECTio. Jul. 19^ 1531. Quo die comparuit 
quidam Guido lienryson^ cui dominus legitime procedens, 
propter suam offensam manifestam injunxit nudis pedibus 
tenere unam ceream yaloris id, offerreque solempniter eandem^ 
postque oblacionein ejusdem yeniam petere de quodam capel- 
lano. [A] 

XXXV. CoRRBGTio. 21 Jul. 1531. Anthonius Atkinson et 
Alicia Cowper parochise de Ebchester, in causa correctionis. 
Fatetur yir. Unde dominus injunxit ei unam fustigacionem^ 
coram processione in ecclesia parochiali de Ebchestre^ pannis 
lineis tantummodo induto^ cum una cerea in manu^ die domi- 
nica prox. et pari modo die dominica extunc sequente^ more 
penitentis. [A] 

XXXVI. Defamatio. 7 Oct. 1531. Robertus Yong, gar- 
dianus sive magister, et societas Artis textorum infra civitatem 
Dunelm. contra Willielmum Marshall, in causa diffamacionis, 
dicendo et publice predicando that the said companye is bribors 
and robbers, [A] 

XXXVII. CoRRECTio. 2 Mar. 1531-2. Quo die compa- 
ruerunt Johannes Robinson et Johanna Smith, et petierunt 
beneficium absolucionis sibi impertiri. Unde dominus post 
poenitentiam peractam monuit eisdem quod se abstineant a 
mutuo consortio, nisi publice et in foro, sub poena excommuni- 
cationis. [A] 

XXXVIII. Defamatio. 23 Mar. 1531-2. Robertus Ligh, 
capellanus, contra Johannem Cammo, in causa difFamacionis, 
imponentem ei crimen incontinenciee. Comparuit reus et 
fetetur; sed dicit se dixisse et imposuisse actori idem crimen 
ex malicia, unde submisit se correctioni domini judicis. Et 
injunxit ei dominus judex pcenitentiam salutarem, videlicet, quod, 
pannis lineis tantummodo indutus, die dominica proxima, infra 
ecclesiam parochialem Omnium Sanctorum Novi Castri, coram 
processione solempni portans unam ceream in manibus suis. 



ECCLBSIA8TIGAL PROCEEDINGS. 49 

ibidemque eandem offerre; similibusque fonna et tnodo^ in 
festo Sancti Lucae Evangeliste adhunc seqaente, infra ecclesiam 
parochialem Sancti Johannis dicte villae ibidemque coram populi 
multitudine veniam petere ab isto actore, pro sua offensa^ more 
poenitentis^ et quod compareat hie hac die in 14 dies ad certifi- 
candum domino^ si banc poenitentiam perimplisset. [A] 

XXXIX. L^sio FiDEi. 12 Oct. 1532. Gardiani artis sive 
misterii scissorum civitatis Dunelm. contra Rogerum Henrison^ 
in causa lesionis fidei sive perjurii. Dimittitur causa propter 
civilitatem causae. [A] 

XL. Defamatio. 9 Nov. 1532. Thomas Watson against 
Robert Gustard^ S. Johannis, Novi Castrii in causa diffama- 
cionis, publice dicendo quod actor est falsus ninarus,* Anglic^ 
aookcold. [A] 

XLI. Contra testem. 17 Jan. 1533-4. Comparuit 
Johannes Heron — Dicit contra Henricum Dicson, testem pro 
parte Hall, that the said Dicson is not a manne of good name 
and not to be receyved to be a witnesse, for he saythe that 
the said Dicson did breake the churche of West Awkelande^ 
and toke forthe of the same a chalice and certayne bookes and 
money, and for the same the said Dicson did open penance. 
[A] 

XLII. Contra testem. 3L Jan. 1533-4. Comparuit Jo« 
hannes Heron, et in Anglicis pro sua defensione dicit, that he 
hath nothing in writing against the witnes of John Hall, how- 
beit his counsal shewed hym that if it wer a promys made, as it 
is not, yet for al that my Lorde of Duresm nor his officers 
hath no jurisdiccion in this mater, forasmoche as it appeareth 
that the covenannt was made in Hexham, which is fourth off 
my Lorde of Duresm jurisdiccion. [A] 

XLIIL Defamatio. 6 Jun. 1534. Elizabeth Johnson 

* NinnariuSy cujus uxor moechatur et tacet. Du Cange, 
f Out of, HejEhamshire was then a peculiar in the Diocese of York. 

E 



50 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHBB 

against Agnes Cutter, in causa diffiun. viz. that this plaintiff 
should give her daughter suche drinkes as did slee the childe 
that she was with* 

XLIV. CoRRECTio. ^gil. S. Nich. Episc. 1534. Officium 
domini promotum contra Johannem Bowman, capellanum, ad 
promocionem Vicarii de Werkeworth, pro eo quod sacra ac sa- 
cramentalia infra parochiam de Werkeworth injuste ministrat, 
et sine auctoritate aliquali, saltern legitima. [A] 

XLV. Lasio fidbi. 6 Mar. 1534-5. John Hall aoainst 
John Heron in qu^edam causa lesionis fidei. [A] 

NiCHOLAUs Westwood de Alondale, parochies de Alanton^ 
letatis sua& circiter 39 years, illiteratus, liberee condicionis — Dicit 
quod presens fuit ubi et quando audivit dictum actorem petere 
a Johanne Heron, reo antedicto, quando vellet solvere sibi et 
uxori suee precium pro quodam equo, quern dictus reus emebat 
de quodam Johanne Fetherstonhalgh, nuper viro dictce uxoris 
suae. Cui ille respondit, inter ceetera, ^* I shall pay you for the 
same horse ether in peny or peny worthe next foloweing Simon 
day and Jude next commyng, otherwise called Wynter fayer at 
Hexham," et desuper idem Heron fidem fecit predicto actori— 
vidit dictum reum ponentem manum suam dextram in manu 
dextra ipsius actoris, in supplementum promissi sui — in via 
publica super pavimentum fori viUee de Hexham^ die luhee, ad 
meridiem, proxime post festum S. Michaelis Archangeli ab ul«* 
timo ad annum elapsum — summa pro dicto equo 43" 4^. [A] 

XLVI. Incestus sive incontinentia. 8 May, 1535. Do- 
rothea Clapam, parochise de Tynemouth, habens hos diem et 
locum, ex assignacione domini Episcopi, ad purgandum se 
coram judice super crimen incestus sive incontinentiee, octava 
manu, hoc est quatuor generosorum bonee famse et opinionis et 
quatuor honestis feminis, quod non sit rea nee commisit cri- 
men incestus sive incontinentise cum Philippo Dacre milite, 
hoc die, viz., 8 die Maii, comparuit dicta Dorothea, et induxit 
Edwardum Graye, Johannem Taillour, Agnetem Nicholson, 



BCCLESIASTICAL PBOOBEDINGS. 51 

Agnetem Ascombe^ Agnetem Taillour, Aliciam Gray^ Isabellam 
Taillour, et Isabellam Nicolson et Aliciam Gray, quos pnrga- 
tores et purgatrices dominus admisit, et^ facta primitus procla- 
macione^ si aliquis relit objicere contra hujusmodi purgacionem, 
nulloque reclamante, tandem admisit dictam Dorotheam ad 
suum jurameatum; quae juravit, et etiam prefati compurga* 
tores; et inhibuit dominus Judex diet® Dorothea quod post 
mensem ab hinc proximum abstineret a consortio dicti Philippi 
Gray {sic), nisi solum modo in publicis locis, et ulterius quod 
pannis lineis in festo Sanctee Trinitatis [TTie entry ends 
abruptly.'] [A] 

XLYII. The will of Thomas Forster. Richard Peir* 
son^ of the parish of SK Nicholas in Durham, aged 20 years, 
Uberee condicionis, saith that he was present when Thomas 
Forster made his will, in this manner, '^ I will that Jenet my 
wife's daughter have her parte of goodds, asfar as they came to 
my hands ; and to the same Janet I will and bequeath oone 
counter, 1 almery^ whiche was her father's, and oone chymney, 
sometyme S^' William Pulter's; and further I will and bequethe 
all the residue of my goods to my wife and Elizabeth Galalie 
my daughter, to have and devide theym bitwene theym twoo; 
and I bequeth to the same Elizabeth oone maser whiche was 
dane John Forster my soone, And my shop geare I bequeth to 
Robert Butterie. [A] 

XLYIII. Defamatio. 12 June, 1535. Hugo Sparke 
against Rouland Stobbs, in causa diffamacionis, publice vo* 
cando eum ^' false lymmer cowckold." Reus comparuit et 
fatetur se vocasse eundem actorem ^' cowckold" — ^verba residua 
negat — loquutus est in ira et furore, eo quod actor vocavit eum 
'^ false thefe." — Dominus Judex, ex confessione ipsius Rou- 
landi, injunxit eidem, sub poena excommunicacionis, quod in 
presentia parochiee Sanctse Margaretae immediate post asper- 
sionem aquae sanctae veniam petat de uxore ipsius Hugonis.* 
[A.] 

* Stobbs produces witnesses to prove that Sparke bad previously defeuned him, in 
saying to him ** Go you your way, for ye wilbe hanged as yonr brother was." ** Go 
thy way, lymmer, for thou wilt be hanged as thy brother was." 

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52 . DBPOSITION8 AND OTHER 

XLIX. Defamatio. 3 July^ 1535. Henry Appulbie against 
the wife of William Robinson in causa difiamacionis — ^that the 
same Henry did murdre 2 oxen at Moorton. [A] 



L. Matrimonial. 24 July, 1535. Marione Marttyne 

AGAINST Anthony Hourde. 

John Adamson, priest^ curate of Slalie. He saith that the 
same Anthonie being with this deponent at the est ende of Slalie 
churche, without the churche yarde there, in the tyme of Lent 
kst past, abought a fortenight afore Ester, saied unto hym in 
this maner, *^ S' John, ye knowe I have made a contract of 
matrymony^e with Marion Martyne. I cannot denie but I have 
made a precontract with oone Jenat Armestronge, and I knowe 
well that the 2d contract is of no effect, wherfore I desire you 
to speke with the same Marion, to knowe her mynde orever • . 
spende any thing in the lawe or sue hym/' And this deponent 
saieth that after he went to the same Marion, upon the mocion 
of the said Anthonie, and shewed to her, as is afore rehersid. 
And she saied that she would not be contented with that 
mocion, but that she would take the lawe upon the said Antho- 
nie for discharge of her sowle 

John Bainbrig of Slalie, husbandman, aged about 26 
years. 

^* I cannot denie, nor never will, but I have made a contract 
of matrimony with Marion Martyne, but I have made oone other 
with one Jenet Armestrong, a yere afore, wherefore I pray you 
go to Marion, and shewe her the same, and let her take 2 
fremde* menne or 2 frendes, and 1 other 2, and what they will 
awarde me to do and that I may do, I will doo it, for I must 
neades sticke to the foormer contract." And so this deponent 
went to Maryon and brake this mater ; whiche answerd and 
saied she would never be contented, nor could discharge her 
conscience soo [A.] 

* Fremde men — men unacquainted with either party. 



BCCLESIASTIOAL PROOBBDINGS. ^3 



LI. Matrimonial. 1535. Johanna Marshall contra Wil- 
helmum Marshall virum suum. Mulier petit se separari a mutuo 
consortio^ pro eo quod vir ei minatur de se verberando et mu- 
tilando^ inhumaniterque tractat. Dominus injunxit viro quod 
acceptam earn tractet ut suam conjugem^ sub poena juris. [A} 

LII. Matrimonial. Richard Dunsforthe against 

SiBELLA BiRTEFELD. 

30 June, 1537' Robert Hagthorp of Chester in the Street, 
gentleman, aged 60 years. Dicit quod circiter festum Inven* 
cionis Sanctee Crucis ult. elaps. deponens, simul cum Ricardo 
Dunsfourthe, venit iu domum istius deponentis, infra villam de 
Cestria ; ubi et quando dictus deponens misit quandam Aliciam 
Gowland ad invitandum dictam Sibellam Birtefeld ad domum 
ipsius deponentis. At whiche first sending the same Sibell 
came not. And afterwarde this deponent sent for thys defend- 
ant agayne, at whiche tyme she came. At whoes commyng 
this deponent sayed to her, " Ye knowe well ynough you and 
Richard Dunsfourth have bene long to gethir in oone howse^ 
and, me thinke, yt were best for you bothe if ye can fynde in 
your harte to marye to gither ; and Sir Richard the parishe 
preiste saieth he wilnot axe you in the churche ooneles ye be 
handfast, wherefore, if ye can fynde in your harte to take hym 
to your husbond, dryve yt no longer, and yf not, breke of by- 
tymes.^^ To whom this woman then answered nothing. And 
than this deponent repeted agayne, " Whye do ye not speke ? 
and yf ye canne be contented to mary with hym I shall sende 
for on other witnes, and, if not, leve of, in the name of God.*' 
To whome than the woman sayed, ^^Tes I am contented, orells 
I would not have done to hym as I have done.'* Upon whiche 
words this deponent, with the consent of this Sibell, sent for 
oone John Robinson, otherwaies called Whitehall, to beare 
witnes of the contract. At whoes commyng the said Richard 
Dunsforthe, upon the informacion of thys deponent of the 
forme of words requisite for a contract, toke the said Sibell by 



54 BBP08ITI0NS AND OTHER - 

the hande^ and saied, ^^ Here I, Richard, take you Sybill to my 
handfast wyfe, from this day forward, all other woman to for- 
sake, and the for to take, while deathe us departe, and thereto 
I plight the my treuth/^ And than they drewe hands, and the 
woman tooke hym by the hande, and saied in lieke wyes, 
** Here I, Sibell, take the Richard to my husbond from this day.'^ 
[Al 

LIII. Testamentary. 1542. Comparuit Agnes Horsley 
vidua, nuper uxor Edmundi Horsley, et exhibuit in scriptis 
quoddam testamentum dicti Edmundi nuper viri sui, dat. 15 
Maii 1538. Et deinde Johannes Horsley, filius naturalis et 
maxime senex dicti Edmundi, exhibuit alterum et aliud testa^- 
mentum dicti Edmundi, dat. 24 Apr. 1542. Et dominus 
monuit, &c. [A] 

William Frenche of Mylbome Grange, capellanus, 65 anno- 
rum, liberee condicionis — ^was present at Mylbome Grange, on 
the 24 of April 1542, when John Horsley, son of the testator, 
addressed his father, in verbis Anglicanis, ^* Father, ar ye not 
contente that all the articles that ar contened in the laste deade 
made unto me that they shall stonde as your last will ;^^ and he, 
Edmund, said ^' Ye, sonne, with Godd^s blissinge and myne.'^ — 
[A] 

LIV. Defamation. 13 Feb. 1642. Agnes wife of Percivall 
Robson against Johanna wife of William Elison in causa diffam. 
^^ that she wold taike in straingers at 7 of the clock at night, and 
washe ther heide and fete, and let them go furthe againe, at un- 
lawfull tyme." [A] 



LV. Extracts from ^^ Processus Divortii inter Mariam 
Darcye, filiam DOMINI Georgii Darcye, Domini 
Darcye, et Willielmum Dominum EuRE." [Reg. Pil- 
kington, f. 61, b. &c.] 

WiLLiELMus Farefaxe de Alne in com. Ebor* armiger. 



BCCXB8IASTICAL PBOCEBDINOS. 55 

eetatis circiter txviij annorum^ testis super libellum per partem 
Marise Darcye, alias Euers, unius filiarum domini Georgii Darcye 
Domini Darcye^ contra Willielmum Euers, Dominum Euers^ 
judicialiter oblatus^ productus^ admissus, juratus — dicit quod 
dictam Mariam Darcye^ alias Eurye^ a natiyitate sua, et dictum 
Willielmum Bominum Eurye per duodecim annos, vel circiter, 
bene novit. Super primo articulo examinatus dicit quod arti« 
cuius continet in se yeritatem. Interrogatus de causa scienties 
suse, he saithe that he was presente at the solemnizacion had 
beytween the parties articulate, in the said parishe churche of 
Eynsham, and see all rites and cerymonies used and doon 
betwixt them, as is commonlye doon bytwixt man and wife at 
the solemnizacion of matrimonye; savinge that one Marye, 
beinge nursse to the said Marye Darcye, articulate, at that 
tyme, did first speke the wordes of matrimonye, and the said 
Marye Darcye did repete them after her, presentibus tunc 
ibidem Thoma Metham armigero, Petro Hoothome generoso, 
Ricardo Allerton yoman, et multis aliis. Super secundo arti* 
culo examinatus dicit quod continet in se yeritatem. Inter* 
rogatus de causa scientiee suae, he saithe that the said Marye 
Darcye, alias Eurye, articulate, was at the solemnizacion of 
the matrimonye caryed in hir nurse armes, and could scarse 
well speke the wordes of matrymonye at the said solemnizacion 
after the teachinge of hir nursse, as he bathe byfore deposed. 
And he saithe that he herd at that tyme S' Raff Eurye, father 
to the said Lord Eurye, saye that the said William Lord Eurye 
was ten yeres old, and no more. Super tertio articulo examinatus 
dicit quod articulus continet in se yeritatem. Interrogatus de 
causa scientiee suae, he saithe, that the said William Lord Eurye 
and she neyer sawe togither, nor came in companye togither at 
any tyme save ons, synce the said Marye came to tbaige of 
xij yers ; and at that tyme he is well assured she woold scarse 
looke or speke to the said L, Eurye, but at his desyer and re- 
quest. And further saithe, that byfor that tyme, by the space 
of a yere at the leaste, the said William Lorde Eurye was. 
maryed to an other woman, so that she had the lesse occasion 
to cast hir favor imto hym. Super quarto articulo examinatus 
dicit quod articulus continet in se 'veritatem, so longe as he 



56 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER ' 

* 

coutynuithe in Eyton in Pikeringe Lyth^ wher he now remay-^ 
nythe. 

Petrus Hothome^ seryiens domini Georgii Darcye^ Domini 
Darcye de Aston, cetatis circiter xxviij annorum. — ^He saithe 
that be was presente in the said parishe churche of Eynshara, 
and see when the solemnizacion of matrymonye was had be- 
twen the parties articulate, and did also here and see all other 
ryts and ceremonyes doon and ministred at that tyme, as is 
commonlye used and doon in all marriages, savinge that the 
said Marye Darcye, alias Eurye, spake the wordes of matry- 
monye as hir nurse, who had hir then in hir armes, taught hir 
— Dicit that the said Marye was at the said solempnizacion 
not above foure yeres of age, for she was not able well to go 
nor speke, but as she was caryed and taught by hir nurse, who 
caryed hir in hir armes to the churche, and there taught hir 
what she shuld saye, as he haithe byfore deposed. And he 
saithe that he bathe herd Mr. William Hotham esquier, who 
was the doer in all things for the makinge of the said marriage, 
and others at that tyme that the said mariage was solempnized, 
saye that the said William Lord Eurye was then aboute ten 
yeres of age — X)icit that he haithe dwelt in house with the said 
Lord Darcye, father to the said Marye, ever sence the said 
Marye Darcye cam to thage of xij yetes and long byfore, where 
she, the said Marye, haithe ben contynuallye eversence his 
comminge. And he saithe that the said Lord Eurye was never 
with hir at any tyme, save twyse, sence she came to xij yeres of 
age; and at the one tyme she wold not speke with hym nor see 
hym ; and at thoder tyme, when they met togither, the said 
Lord Eurye wold have kissed hir, and she refused so to do, 
and went frome hym. Further he saithe that he could never 
see nor perceyve any token of favor that she bare towardes the 
said Lord Eurye, sence she came to xij yeres of age, but haithe 
herd her at divers tymes say that she wold never have hym. 

Ricardus Allerton, de Swyne in Holdernes, eetatis circiter Ix 
annorum-i — He saithe that he was presente in the parishe church 
of Eynsham articulate about xij or xiij yeres ago, and see said 
Marye Darcye, alias Eurye, and the said William Lord Eurye 
solempnyse matrymonye togither ; and did then and there see 






KCCLSSIASTICAL PROCBBDINGS. 57 

all other rytesi and oeremonyes doon and used as is commonlye 
doon at all manages ; savinge that the said Marye Darcye was 
so yonge that she could not speke the wordes of matrymonye, 
but as hir nursse, who had hir in hir armes^ taught hyr — He 
saithe he haithe knowen the said Marye Darcye ever sence she 
was bom, and he is well assured that she was not past foure 
yeres of age at the said manage. As for the said Lord Eurye, 
he saithe that he haith herd Sir Raff Eurye, his father, and one 
Davyson his servannte, saye, that the said Lord Darcye was at 
the said solempnizacion but x yeres olde, or a xj at the most. 
— He saithe he could never perceve, or here tell of, any favor 
that the said Marye Darcye shuld here towardes the said 
William Lord Eurye, sence she came to xij yeres of age. — He 
lyvethe at Eyton in Pickeringe Lyth, whiche is notoriouslye 
knowen to be of the dioces and jurisdiction of York. 

Tenor vero literarum domini Georgii Darcye Domini Darcye, 
judicialiter, ut praefertur, exhibitarum, sequitur in hcec verba. 

To my very lovinge frende Mr. John ShiUito, at Yorke, 
deUver this. After hertie commendacions. Where by the 
opynyon of consell learned is thought requisite that a divorce 
be sewed between the Lord Euers and Marye Darcye, one of 
my doughters, for the more clere extinguishmente of a mariage 
solempnized betwixt them in their infancies, thes shalbe therfor 
to signifie you, that bothe I and my said doughter ar contented 
and wollinge that the said divorcement be had and doon, with 
convenyente spede, and doo require you to be proctour for my 
said doughter in that byhalf. Ye have here enclosed an answer 
to certayn instructions. And what instrumente or proxye you 
shall devise for your further procedinge in the premisses I and 
my said doughter shall signe and scale, and shall ratefie approve 
and confirme your lawfull doings therein accordinglie ; and the 
ordinarye charges herof, and also your paynes, shalbe thanck- 
fuUye considered, by God^s grace, who kepe you. Frome Aston 
this xxvij*^ of August, Anno 1554, 

Your lovinge frende G. Darcye, 

Marye Darcye. 

[Sentence of Divorce pronounced 3 Nov. 1554, by Dr. John 
Dakyn, Canon Residentiary of York, in the absence of the 



58 DEPOSITIONS AN1> OTHBR 

Dean, on behalf of the Dean and Chapter of York, the Q\X9X^ 
dians of the Spiritual Jurisdiction, the See of York being 
vacant.] 

* 

LVI. Thb will of Sir George Contbrs, of Harpbrly. 
13 Nov. 1567* Ctuo die Johannes Conyers, armiger, filius et 
heres nuper Georgii Conyers, dum visit de Harperley, dioc. 
Dunelm. militis defuncti, ac ejusdem nuper Georgii unus exe- 
cutorum, exhibuit domino Judici testamentaiu dicti nuper 
Georgii, continens, uti asseruit, suam ultimam voluntatem; 
quod testamentum petiit in forma juris approbari, &c. et induxit 
in testes super factione et veritate ejusdem quosdam Antonium 
Markendall et Willielmum Robynson, &c. 

William Robynson, aged about 30 years. 

He saith that the testament here exhibited is the true testa- 
ment of lait S^' George Conyers, contegning therein his last will, 
for he remembrethe well in the monethe of Maye was a twel- 
monthe, at whiche tyme the forsaid S' Georg his lait M' had 
drawen his forsaid will, he caused this deponent to cary the 
same to M' Tankrd* to write and order it in forme of lawe : 
and this examinat, after it was so correcte, brought it agayn to 
his said M', who willed and commandet hym to drawe and 
wryte it up in forme, as it is nowe shued ; and this said de^ 
ponent openly redde it byfore divers in his grete chamber at 
Harperley, and than he gave it to his doughter mastres Ehnour 
to laye up. Wm. Robinson. 

Anthony Markendaill, late servant of Sir George 
Conyers, aged 42 years. Ut supra. Will admitted to pro-* 
bate.t [A] 

* This person resided at York, and was an eminent civilian. His name occurs in 
connection with the will of Sir Robert Brandling hereafter, 
f See Inventoiy, Wills and Inventories, 1835, p. 266. 



ECCLBSIASTICAL PROGEBDINOB. 59 

LYIL Unlawful marriage. 

Edward Ward of Langton near Gainford, husbandman^ 
aged 40 years* 

He saith that ther is dyvers writing* hanginge upon th& 
pillers of ther church of Oainford^ but what they ar, or to what 
effect, he cannott depos3e ; saing that he and other parishioners 
doith gyve ther dewties to be taught such matters as he is ex- 
amined upon, and is nott instruct of any such. 

He saith, that he was maried with the said Agnes in Gainford 
church by the curat S>^ Nicholas, about 14 daies next after 
Christenmas last past, but not contrary the lawes of God, as 
he and she thought. And for the resydew of the article he 
thinks nowe to be trewe, but not then. Examined whither that 
he, this deponent, dyd knowe at and before the tyme of their 
mariiidg, that she the said Agnes was, and had bein, his uncle 
Christofore Ward's wyfe, ye or no, he saith that he knew that 
to be trew, for she had, and haith yet, fyve children of his the 
said Christofer's. Examoned upon the danger of their soules^ 
and evyll example, he saith that both he and mayny honest 
men in that parish thinks that it were a good deid that thei two 
pieght still lyve to gyther as they doo, and be no further 
trobled. + 

Agnes Ward, alias Sampton, aged 40 years. 

all the Lordship and paroch of Gainford knew howe nighe 

hir first husband and last husband was of kyn, and yet never 
found fault with ther mariadg, neither when thei wer asked in 
the church 3 sondry sonday nor sence — ^they haith bein likned 
to gither more and 2 yere, and yett never man nor woman found 
fault — but rather thinks good ther of, bicause she was his own 
uncle wyf. [A] + t 

LVni. Defamation. 

Edward Garnet of Riton, servant, aged 24 years. 
Ednam is commonlye reported to be a very honest man. — 

* No doubt the Table of Kindred and Affinity respecting marriage between relations* 
t The mark of a witness not able to write his naune. 



60 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

This examinat beying personally in the court of Morpeith^ at 
the tyme articulate attendinge of master Commissary^ this ex- 
aminat's uncle *^ and m' libellat, hard the said John Ellesdon 
speke the words articulate that Ednam was a theiff, and that he 
wold so proTC hym, and that he had put furth the said Ellesdon 
father's doon meir.f Per me, Edward Garnbtt. 

George Atkinson of Pigdon^ etc. husbandman^ aged 30 
years. 

Tlie said Ellisdon cauld the said Ednam a theif^ and that he 
should put furth his the said Elsdon father doon meir to one 
Michael] Dodd of Tyndall. Examined of the place^ he saitb 
in the way from Alnwick to Newton on the More^ on Walridg 
day^ the first fair day after Anwick last past, and also in the 
chappell of Morpeth the same day that the said EUisdon miss- 
used Mr. Garnet in his words, which was in lenton last 
past to his remembrance. — He belyvith that the good name of 
Ednam is much impared by the said ElUsdon, for as yet he 
still reports evill of Ednam by report of Gawen Atkenson this 
examinates neighbour (which is Elsdon mawgh;]:), which tolde 
this examinat that Ellisdon said plainlye to hym that he wold 
no more come to the lawe, but wold mak his Mr answer for 
hym, And yett Ednam shuld still be his father yawd || steiller. 

[A] + 

LIX. Testamentary. John Catchesyd against John 
Robinson, upon the will of Janet Comyng. 

John Hall of Britley, alias Greincroft, gent, aged 20 
years. 

He saith about Lammes 2 yeres now past this examinat, 
having the fourt part of the towne of Byrtley in his inheritance, 
and having an occasion to come thither, he came to the said 
Catchesyd house, wher the said Janet Commyng was sytting by 

* William Garnet, Rector of Ryton from 1558 to 1577, was at this period Com- 
missary of Northumberland. 
f Dun-coloured mare. 
X Brother-in-law. 
It Hone. 



BCCLESIA8TIGAL PROCEEDINGS. 61 

the ffc, and having moch talke with her of hir self, she told 
hym howe she had gyven and disposed hir goods^ praing hym 
to be a wytness thereof. At what tyme she said to this exami- 
nat that she gave to Robert Shotton one cowe, one bowl] of otts 
and one other of rye^ and hir houshold stuf to a shomaker of 
Durham^ one ryng and one coverled to hir sister^ and all the 
resydew of hir goods she gave to the said John Catchesyd^ find- 
ing hir thereof duringe hir lyfe* — Ther was children ther but no 
others. John Hall. 

LX. Defamation. William Mellbrbye, vicar of 
Merington, against Charles Tompson. Circ. 1560. [A] 

John Todd, of Bushop Auckland, yoman, aged 45 years. 

He saith that about Michelmas last past the said Charles wyf 
labored of childe, and at that tyme the said Charles was some* 
thing disquiet with hymself, in so much, as the wyfes durst nott 
deall with the sike woman unles this examinat, being the baly 
ther, wolde take th' ordering and keping of hym. And at the 
last, consyderinge of the premises, he toke fayn to kepe the 
said Charles in one Hewe Wrey house. And at the last, being 
in mistrust of him and his usuadg, bounde him with a rop. And 
the morrow after the said Charles wyf was lighter,* this depo* 
nent Lett hym understand therof ; which at the last requiered 
hym that he might goo home to his house, promessing this 
examinate that he wold become a quiett man, and make no 
troble nor do harme. Yet this deponent thought good to go 
home with the said Charles, and took 2 neibours, John Grein 
and Peirs Copertwait, which cam with the said Charles to his 
house. And at that tyme, very wittylie and discretly he usyd 
hym self, going to his wyf, and willed her to be of good cheire, 
and said she shuld lake nothinge. And at the last the medd wyfj 
one wedoo Hutcheson, brought the said Charles his childe 
unto hym, and badd hym gyve his sone his blessing. Tq 
whome the said Charles said audiently that the childe was the 
Yycar of Merington's, and non of his. And this deponent, 
fering the wyf shuld take some conceyte at his words, he came 

* Delivered of her child. 



€2 DfiPOSITfONtI AND OTHER 

to hir and moved hir to thinke nothing of his words^ but take 
a good harte^ and she shuld see all things well. At what tyme 
the said sike woman said to this examinat, holding up hyr 
hands and wishinge that she never were in better case then she 
lay then in yf ever she offendyd with the said vicar. — ^Examined 
whither he thought that the said Charles was then distract 
or no, he saith that he doth thynk veryly that he was distrect. 
He saith that the common fiame and voice is moch of the 
preist, by reason of thois words. He never hard that the preist 
was chardged with any dishonestie, but onlye as he haith pre- 
deposyd in this said matter^ for he haith had lide acquaintance 
with hym. By me, Jhon Tood. 



IiXI. Defamation. Testes producti ex officio adver- 
sus Antonium Ratclif, armigerum. [A] 

Christofer Egleston, of Hunstonworth, yoman, aged 
40 years. 

He saith that about the tyme libeUat the sayd Mr. Antony, 
comming out of the church of Hunstanworth, caulde for one 
Roger Doon, which at last came to hym, to whome the said 
Antony said, " Dyd not thou promess me that thou wold tell 
me and the parson of Hunstonworth who stole George Whit- 
feld sheip ?*' and Don annswerd and said, ^ I neid not unless I 
woll." Mr. Ratcliff said then to Donn, "Thou breaks pro- 
mess.'^ And Done answerd that he wold not. "You will 
know yt soon enowgh, for your man, NicoU Dixson, stole them, 
that ther stands, upon Thursday bifore Christenmas then last 
past,^' saing the words was spoke about Michelmas last past 
bitwixt the said Antony and Doon. And the said Doon said 
further, at that tyme, that the said Nycoll shud dryve the said 
stoln sheip to one William Dixson of Hexamshier, his brother, 
and ther remaned unto the sonday next after, and then the 
said Nicoll rode to his said brother William Dixson^s, and 
brought away the caise* of one of the said sheip to his owne 
- ■ ■ . * ■ ' . - ■ 

* Carcase. 



ecClesiastigal proceedings. 63 

house at Newkton, and dyd his use therwith. Then Mr, Rat- 
clif cauld upon on Bobson^ and said to hym, '^ Dyd not thou teU 
me that Donn had the 40«. to sell the said 4 sheip of Dizon^ 
my man ?^' And the said Robson said that Done bad hym byd 
ytt ; and Donn, yett then present, said, *' What maid matter of 
that? for the poore man that aught* the said shepe, then also 
present^ had 40«. to have 

other things tlien yt.'' And Doon said that he shuld never be 
able to prove hym a theif, '^for although ye be a gent., and I a 
poore man, my honestye shalbe as good as yours/^ '^ What 
saith thou?'' said Mr. Ratehff then, ^^ liknes thou thy honestye 
to myn?*' And then Mr. Ratcliff, being then in the church 
yard after servic, liftyd up his hand at Doon, which gave back; 
but to this examinat's knowledge the said Mr. Anthony dyd not 
then touch the said Doon, neither with his hand nor with any 
kinde of wepon, nor no wepon was then drawne, by virtue of 
his ooth. 4- 

Stephen Eggleston of the same, yoman, aged 38 
years. 

He agrees with Christopher, saing in the end that they mul« 
tiplied of words, and Mr. Ratcliff cauld Doon an arrand villan 
theif. And the said Doon annswerd and said that he was as 
trewe for a poore man as he the said Anthony was for a gen- 
tleman. He dyd not se hym smite at all, nor no weypon was 
then drawne. Mary, Mr. Ratclif was in greif that Doon shuld 
liken his truith to his, and therupon departyd away frome 
Doon, not well pleased. 4- 

Alexander Eggleston, of Townfeild, near Hunstonworth, 
yoman, aged 30 years. 

He saith at that tyme ther was crowell words betwixt . • 

but Mr. Ratclif smote him not, 

nor drew no wepon. 

CuTHBERT PROWDE of Slcdmcdowcs, husbaudmau, aged 40 

years. 

♦ Was the owner of. 



64 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHBR 

He. saith that Mr. RaUyf was in great greif that Doon shuld 
fyll* his man Dixon for certaine shepe^ and accompt hymself 
as trew as Mr. Ratlif^ and therupon he hevyd his hand at Doon^ 
but he neither toched hym nor smote at hym. 



LXII. Violent hands upon a Clerk. 

• 

Testes producti ex parte Williekni Lee clerici contra Williel- 
mum Balye, eo quod violenter emittit manum suum in ipsum. 
[A] 

Edward Hudspeith^ of Durham, tanner, aged S6 years. 

He saith that he dooith not knowe the said William to be an 
ecclesiasticall minister or person about the tyme of the begin- 
ning of the travers betwixt the said parties, for at that tyme 
the said William Lee, byfor Mr. Alderman Hugh Whitfeild, 
this examinat and others, did denye hym self to be an ecclesi* 
asticall person nor minister. 

He saith that, upon the same day and tyme articulate, this 
examinat and William Balye was commyng furth of Gilligat 
into Claypath, and in ther way, they mett with William Lee 
going then into Oillygatt. And this examinat, consydering that 
William Lee had been conversant in bis father this examinat 
house, and hering that ther was prosesses furth for hym and 
Sir John Weld, and decred at York for hym the said Lee, upon 
goodwill advertished hym therof, saing, " Yf ye know any fault 
with thy self lett yt be amendyd.'^ At which tyme William 
Balye said to this examinat, ^' Me think he goith not lyk a man 
of the church, but lyk a ruffyng.'* To whome the said William 
Jjee aunswerd, *^ What haist thou to do with my apparell or my 
going? thou art a slave and a knave to fynd fault with me.'' 
William Bayly annswerd hym then, and said, '^ I have nothing 
to do with the^ but yf thou hadd bein wher I was thou might 

* a term from the Borden. PenoiiB aggrioTed in England filed bilk with the 
Scottish Warden, containing lists of the goods or cattle which had been stolen from 
them, and vice vetsd. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 65 

have sein other order. I will take this at thy hands ;'' and so 
they all departyd. 

Super Interrog. He saith that he thinks ther is about thre 
hundreth men inhabiting in the parish articulat. — He saith that 
he haith not hard any of that nombre report that the said 
William Bayley smot the said William Lee. Edw. Hudspeith. 

Henry Hibst^ yoman^ aged 30 years. 

■ He saith that, being in his shop workinge, he hard a 

sturr in the streit, and therwith lap * forth, and saw William 
Balye have William Lee by the coUer; this examinat put them 
in sonder. Examined whither he saw hym smyt by any 
manner of way or nay, he saith he sawe no stripts bitwixt 
them. Examined what words he hard bitwixt them, he saith 
that thei chidd and brawled lyk wyves,t but what words they 
wer he canott depose upon. 

Ad Interrog. He saith that he beliveth that ther is above 40 
men inhabiting within the said parish — ^that he never hard any 
man within that parish say that the said William Bayly smote 
William Lee. 

Ralph Liddaill, yoman alias shomaker, aged 52 years. 

Whither William Lee be a clerk or no neacit deponere^ but 
upon report that he shtdd be in a decon's roume here in the 
coUedge of Durham ; and for his honesty or conversacion he 
haith had litle to doo with hym, and can no more depose, saing 
that he cannot fawt hym. j: 

He saith that, about the tyme libellat, this examinat, being in 
his owne house, and hering a great dyn in the streit, he came 
running downe a stair out of his house, and being in the streit 
asked of the matter, and met Henry Hirst, abovesaid, which 
had new partyd the said Ley and Balye, and further he canst 
not depose. He saw no stripts gyvon of W™ Balye to Lee. 

Ad Interr. He saith that he beliveth that ther is about 60 
men dwelling in the said parish of S* Nicoles — never hard, &c. 
ut supra. 

* Lapt. t Women. % Knows no fiiult in him. 



66 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 



LXIIL William Barker against William Armb- 

STRONO^ IN CAUSA TBSTAMENTARIA. NoV. 1561. 

IsABELL RowELL, wife of Alexandre Rowell of Newcastle, 
cowper^ aged about 24 years. She saith that the said Isabell 
Morrey house was the first house that ever she cam in in New- 
castle, and, being ther by the space of ane yere, understood and 
perfectly knew that the said Isabell had solde hir house to the 
said Armestrong for the some of thre pounds ; saing she had 
nether frend nor kyn ; whereupon she required the said Arm- 
strong to gyy and minister unto her the said some of 3/. by 
parcells, as she shuld stand neid, and yf any remaned over he 
shuld have yt, so that he brought hir honestly furthe.* Ex- 
amined whether the said Isabell maid any testament, or not, she 
saith she cannot tell, but she never knew of non. She was 
from home the tyme of hir death, and 4 daies before. — She 
saith she is a Skotts woman, and neither a kyn or alye, nor 
passitbt who haith the victory so the trew may be knowen. 



LXIV. Will of Elizabeth Blithman, late wife and 
RELICT OF James Blithman, of Newcastle, butcher, 

2 May 1562. [B] 

William Wilde of Newcastle, bower, aged about 60 years. 

Examined whither she was of perfect reason and memorye at 
the tyme of hir will makinge, he saith, upon a May daye last 
past, after eavonsong, the said Elizabeth had bein sore sick 
and in a swone, and recovered again veri well. At what tyme 
this deponent and his wife wentt in, to se as J she dyd. And 
at that tyme the said Elizabeth axsyd " who was that ?'' And hir 
keper tolde hir. And then they tow talked familiarly to gither. 
And in ther communicacion the said deponent said to hir, <^ I 

♦ Buried her in a respectable manner. f Careth, heedeth. J How. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. SJ 

trust ye shall doo well how ever ye doo." And axsed hir, yf God 
toke hir, at that tyme, who should have hir goods? She 
answered, "Who shulde have my good nor* thes 2 wenshes, 
which haith done more for me then all my kyn haith doon ?" 
And cried fye of hir kyn, and said non of them wolde loke upon 
hir less or more. — ^At 5 of the cloke upon May day aforesaid. 
Examined of her udge, he saith he can not certainly say, but of 
great aidg, and hath had 4 husbands. + 

Janet Wyeld, wife of William aforesaid, aged about 50 
years. 

She saith that, upon May day last past, this deponent, about 
fyve of the cloke at night, went to se the said E. Blitheman, 
which had bein sore craised ;t and in her going thither she mett 
her husband W. Wield in the doore comyng furth of the said 
E. BUthman^s house. And she, this deponent, comme to the 
said £. hir neighbour, and asked hir as she dyd ? And she 
answerd, " I thank Ood I doo well," being sore seike* And 
in other communicacion this deponent askied hir, and said, 
^' Commother,^ yf it shall pleas God to take you to his mercye, 
whome intend you shall have your goods ?^^ And she said, 
" None but thes 2 wenshes, my husbands doughter, which is 
most worthye, for they have done more for hir and all my 
fends cam never to gyve me a pott of drink, when I was in 
mysyrye; and that hir frend had hir good,^' nameing one Crags, 
which her husband lett hym have for a sheip, and could not 
gett yt againe, but, yf my Lord President § cam in to the 
countrye, she doubted not but to have ytt. — Mallye Shafftoo 
and IsabeU Jackson and the 2 wenshes harde thes wordes — 

Isabell Jackson, wife of Simon Jackson, shomaker, of the 
aidg of toward 50 yere. 

She saith, as for the said Elizabeth she haith knowne hir 

* Except. 

t Afflicted with bodily illness. The word at this period had no reference to mental 
disorder. 

I Good mother. 

§ The President of the Council for Ecclesiastical Causes in the North of England, 
under a commission "from the Crown. Hia residence was in York. 

F 2 



6S DEPOSITIONS AND OTHEB 

this 20 yeres^ being hir poore neighbour. As forthe tVother 
that came into the courte of hir freinds, Newcome and Hew 
Carlell^ she haith knowne this foure or fyve yeares^ and as 
concerning the matter she suth she some tyme was hir ser- 
yannt^ and was often cominge to hir to se as she dyd, and^ 
upon May day last past, about fyre of the clok at night, this 
deponent cam to se as she dyd, and found ther William Wyled 
and his wif ; and the said Elizabeth hard this deponent speak- 
ing to hir, and she answerd, *^ Ysabell, I know thy tounge." 
And after sondry communicacions, this deponent hard Wylde^s 
wyf say to hir, *^ Commother, how do you ?*^ and she answerd 
that she was very sicke. And the said Wylds wyf demannded 
of hir an she wold have the priest ? And she annswerd, ** I 
neid not, I trust, I am fytt for God, and the worlde I have no 
goods to make a wyll upon/^ And the said Wylde's wife said 
again to her, " Commother, for Ood^s sake tell us who shall 
have your goods, yf God shuld call you to his marcye/' The 
said Elizabeth said then she had no goods to gyve to no leving 
soule, but to thes 2 wenshes, Beylye and Nellye. And, the 
morrow next after, this said deponent came also to se hir dame, 
and she knew her also again by her speich, and caulde hir by hir 
name, and said then she wolde not have the priest, when this 
deponent moved hir therto, for she trusted to put over this.*— 
Her said dame continued still in the same mynde, that the said 
wenshes shulde have hir goods. — She was then of perfect 
memorye. 



LXV. The will op Clement Sharpro, late op Cauld- 

COTTS. 9 Ji;ne. 1562. [B] 

George Rames, of Bolam, in the co. of Northumberland, 
aged about 50 years. 

He saith he was not with the priest and dark at the makinge 
of his last will, but, thre or 4 daies after, the testator tolde 
this deponent of the makinge of his last will, and said that he 
had forgotten one speciall matter ther in. And this deponent 

* To recover from her present attack of illness. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 69 

axsked hym^ what yt was ? And he said that he was very sadd 
of his Sonne John^ for that he was a very tender childe, and 
had a deseas apon hym, which he thought wolde not suffer 
hym to lyve to his full aidg. And this examinat asked hym 
what was his mynd in that caise? The testator annswerd 
and said^ ^^There haith bein a breke of unkindness bitwixt my 
brother John and me ; and my will is^ yf John my sone dy 
bifore he come to lawfuU aidg, that my 4 syster shall have 
my goods devided emongest them/^ — He saith he spoke on no 
other matters^ for all other things he had declared hys mynd 
to his curat, and yt was written. — ^Thes words was spoken the 
tuisday bifore Fastens eavon last.* — He himself maried Clemant 
Sharpro mother. 

IsABELL Hunter, of Oatished, singlewoman, aged 20 years. 

She saith that, 2 or thre dales bifore the said Clement's de- 
partur, she this deponent went to Caldcoat, to se as he dyd, 
hering that he was erased, at what tyme she &c. as above* 
Examoned upon what occasion this deponent was ther at that 
tyme, she saith yf he had lyved she this deponent was in hope 
that he wold have maried hyr, and so upon the good will she 
hair hym she went to se hym, when she hard say that he was 
sik. + 



LXVI. Margaret Richerdson against Wilkinson. 

14 Jul. 1562. [B] 

William Freisell, of the Clothe markett in Newcastle, 
tayllyer, aged about 60 years. 

He saith that he haith knowne the woman bithe spaic of one 
hole yere and more, for she was this deponent's servant one 
quarter of a yer, and the said Wilkinson by the spaic of half a 
yer and better. He saith, the weik bifore Wittsonday, upon a 
hallyday, this deponent cam home frome the churche and found 
the said Wilkinson and Margaret abovesaid, she being then 
Mr. Shaffto^s servant, in his house, and this deponent wife and 

* Shrove Tuesday. 



70 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

thay 2 talking of mariag. At what tyme^ after dyvers commu- 
nicacions^ this deponent hard Margaret abovesaid say to the 
aforesaid Wilkinson, ^^Wilt thou swer by the crosse of thy 
dagger that thou maid me not a promis of mariag, and whither 
goo thou?" And Wilkinson annswerd and sud, ^'That I will 
nott swere but that I maid the a promes to mary/' + 

LXVII. MoNiTio. 27 Julii, 1562. Dominus Judex mo* 
nuit Walles, aqueebajulum ecclesifle paroehialis Omnium Sancto- 
rum, Novi Castri super Tynam, quod eat in vestibus lineis-, 
more poenitentis, die dominica proxima. [B] 

LXVIII. MoNiTio. 13 Oct. 1562. Dominus Judex mo- 
nuit gardianos ecclesiee de Tynmouth, sub poena juris, quod 
permittent curatum capellae de Ersden divina celebrare in eadem, 
more solito, et dictos gardianos et suos ad interesse in capella 
majori, infra manerium de Aukland Episcopi, coram domino 
Jacobo Dunelmensi episcopo, die Veneris, viz. 30 die mensis 
Octobris, proxime futura. [B] 



LXIX. Janet Clerk against Agnes Aydon, wife of Guy 

Haidon. 14 July, 1562. [B] 

Margaret Resh, wife of Roger Resh, of Newcastle, baxter, 
aged about 60 years. 

She saith she haith known them boith maidens and wifes. 
She saith that, about the feast of Witsonday last past, this 
deponent harde the parties chiding in the streit, at what tyme 
she harde Gawen's wife say that the said Janett hadd cutt a 
purs, and more evell of the said Janett this deponent hard not 
the said Agnes say. — She saith she is ther doore neighbour, 
and stoodd in hir owne house when the said words was spoken. 

+ 

William Lee, of Newcastle, coUyer. 

He saith that he this deponent, being in his own house, isence 
the tyme of Easter last past, hard Gawen Aidon^s wyf say to 
the said Janet Clerk, " Go thy way, like nowghth as thou art. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PAOCEEDINGS. Jl 

and cut a purse, as thou haist doon bifore tyme, and thou may 
be duckt in Tyne, as thou haith beene/* -f 

LXX. Defamatio. 19 Jan. 1562-3. Alexander Tailyer 
against Thomas Angessyd, in causa diffamacionis — eo quod 
murderravit filium suum. 



LXXL Agnes Foster, singlewoman, against Gabriel 
Anderson, in causa matrimoniali. [B] 

Robert Ogle of Shilvington, in co. Northumbr. gen. aged 
about 30 years. 

He saith that he haith knowne the man by the spaic of three 
yeres, and that he was his servannt by the spaic of 2 yeres, 
and the said Agnes upon 10 yeres. He saith the tyme the said 
Gabriell was his servannt he broke this matter to this depo- 
nent, his Mr., and required hym to go to Captheton, to wytt* 
nes the contracte, and have communicacion upon his bihalff 
with hir friends, which was nothing willing thereto, moving the 
said Gabriell to the contrarye, for that he understood that 
neither the man or the woman had any thing to leyv or stay 
unto, and yett for conscienc cause, to recorde a truith, for that 
the said Gabriell lett this deponent understand that he had 
maid hir a promes which he wold performe, God wiUing. And 
hereupon this deponent toke pain in the premisses, and reasoned 
with hir friends, and could not agree but brake of, and yett 
after the said Gabriel agreid of his owne will with the maid 
and hir freinds, and overcame this deponent, his Mr., to stand 
bound upon his bihalf for the performance of the covenant. 
Examinat upon the tyme, he saith yt was this last sommer, bi- 
fore harvest. Examined who were mo present, he saith Antony 
Fennik de le Fawnes, James Fennik his brother, and 2 of the 
young woman^s brethren, one Norman Foster, and many other 
strangers, whose names he cannot remember ; and further he 
saith the parties was lawfully contract ther, and dyd acknow- 
ledge them selves to be man and wif. He saith the day of 
mariadge was sett and they axed in the church. + 



72 DBPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

Thomas Foster of Captheton^ husbandman, aged about 50 
years. 

He saith be haith knowen the man but senc Christenmas was 
a twelmouth, and the woman by the spaic of 12 yeres, for that 
she is his wife's cosyn. He was on of the wench frends that 
shulde have paid a parte of his goods in hir preferment, 8th 
pound * by this examinat with promes the rest to be paid the 
next court day, and was calde to the communicacion of the 
mariadg ; and his Mr. thei, Robert Ogle, and other his frends, 
was agreid with the wenches frends, and the matter was maid 
upp bitwixt them, and the parties had that day 20 daies to be 
maried, and they wer asked in the church. He saith the tyme 
was bitwixt Witsunday and mydsomer or ther about. 4- 

LXXII. Illegitimate child. On which day agreed 
William Brandlinge and Isabell Carlell before the judge afore- 
said and witnesses — that the said William Brandling shall have 
the rewll, order, and goverment of Margerye Brandling their 
doughter, bais begotton, so that the said woman here after shall 
have no medlynge with the said wench, to enties hir frome any 
servic order or apointment lawfuUye by the said William the 
wench shall be assigned unto; And further, in consyderacion 
of such costs and chardges as the said Isabell Carlell heretofore 
have had with hir, he the said William doith covenant and pro- 
mes to pay the said Isabell every yere, thes 4 next yeres after 
the dait her of, one bonde of lynt,t the first payment to begyn 
at Wyttsonday next; and Thomas Boulton merchant, of the 
said Newcastell, seurty for the payment of the said lynt. In 
wytnes hereof as well the said William and Isabell as the said 
Thomas haith subscribed ther names or marks the day and yere 

above written. + 

By me Thomas Boultone. 

* Eight pounds. 

t A bundle of lint or flax which she might spin and convert into money. 



BGCLB8IA8TICAL PBOGEEDING8. 73 

LXXIII. Fighting in a chubghtard. The examinacion 
of George Keidinfll, of Newcastle, sherman, aged SO years, 
to articles ex officio against him. [A] 

1. He saith that the 1"' article is trewe, for that this exami- 
nate and the said William was in the said church yard at the 
time articulat. 

2. He saith the wordes that was spoken at that tyme was 
other manner of words; viz., this examinat, comming then 
throwgh the said church yard, he met with William Brandling* 
at the quere doore, which first smote at this e^aminat with his 
fyst, not drawinge any weipon. And then he said to this de* 
ponent " Were not for shame I shtdd break thy head with this 
dagger,'' laing his hand upon the same ; this examinat answer- 
ing, *^ William, why smytyou me?'' And this deponent streight 
way thereupon departyd into his father Robert Keidnell house, 
which is adjoyning to the church style, and further, etc. 

3. He saith that at ther firste meiting ther was no blodeshed 
bitwixt the said William and Georg. Mary, incontinent after, 
the said William went into his suster^s house, viz. Gawen Ay- 
don's, and ther brought out a piked staff, to have stricken this 
examinat withall, which was going home. At which tyme this 
deponent father, Robert Keidnell, mett with the said William 
Brandling, evon upon the graits of the church style of the said 
Sanct Androo's, perswading the said William, which at that 
tyme was in great raidg, and said to the aforesaid Robert "What 
saith thou, thoufalsse olde carle? Ther shall neither of ye booth 
staye me ;" And then the said Robert cauld the said William 
BrandUng "Skottsbrowe." And thereupon the said William 
smote at this examinat's father ther with his dagger, and cutt 
hym in the head and in the browe, so that he bledd very soore 
longe therafter. And this examinat, hering of the said fraye, 
came running to them, having a staff in his hand, and wold 
have smitten at the said William, but he could not gett to hym 
for the preis of women and others ther, and yett afterwarde the 

* For particulars of this person see the preceding article, and the will of Sir 
Robert Brandling hereafter. 



74 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

said William smyting at this deponent with his said dagger he 
hurt hym, and cut his fyngers and so drewe blode of this exa- 
minat. Examined whither the parties dyd still contynew in 
the said church yarde or noo^ respondet affirmative. 

+ Signum died Geobgii Keidnbll. 

The examination of William Brandling^ of Newcastle^ 
marinell, aged 36 years^ to Articles against him. 

He saith that he and the said George was in the church yarde 
of Sanct Androw^ at the tyme articulat, but ther was then no 
such wordes, or any other unsemynge wordes, spoken betwixt 
them at that tyme. 

He saith, that^ upon Satterday at night next bifore the day 
articulate this examinat and the said Georg was at drink in one 
mother Blithman's in the said towne ; at what tyme in the end 
they 2 cast wordes; and the said Georg offerd to fyght with this 
examinat ; and therupon the place was appointyd the morrow 
next after in the morning, wher this deponent was, but not the 
said Georg. And afterward, this examinat meiting the said Georg 
Keilinell [so] in the said church yarde, said that he dyd not 
well to brag and crak * and apoint a place to feight and wold 
not come. To whome the said Georg ainswered and said that 
he wold be with hym, this examinat, by and by ; and therwith 
the said Georg ran in unto his father Robert Keidnell house 
and brought furthe a great staff, and therwith smot at this 
examinat and felled hym, being upon the church styll and one, 
this, out of the church yarde and th'other on the church style, 
the said George being then in the said churche yarde, saing that 
the blode dyd more yshew furth of this examinat . 

with the said Georg to 

hymself broke the said Georges fathers head^ one Robert Keid- 
nell by chanch being then a rydder f bytwixt them. He saith 
he smot the said Robert with the pomell of his dagger. He 
saith that the said Robert Keidnell was then upon the said 
church style. 

M. Signum dicti Willielmi Brandling. 

* Boafit. t An interferer. 



ECCIiESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. J5 

Alexander Byrr, of Newcastle^ laboringman, aged S2 
years. 

He saith that he cam in at the hjrnder end of the said fray, 
saing that he dyd nott se one of them smyt at another^ but he 
sawe the said William soore bleid one his browe, and Robert 
Keidnell^ the said Oeorg father, soore hurt on the heid and in 
the said church yarde. Examined^ who smot the said Brand- 
ling or Robert^ he saith he canott depose, but the report is that 
the said Georg began the fray, and both of them, the said Wil- 
liam and Georg, did fight in the said church yarde. 

+ Signum dicti Alexandri. 

Ralph Pig, of Newcastle, aged 20 years. 

He saith by virtue of his ooth, that the said day and tyme 
articulate this examinat loking out of the said wyndowe, which 
was in Gilbert GiUis's house, he this deponent dyd se the 
said Robert Keidland hold the said William Brandling, at such 
tyme as the said William fott slipt into one of the hooles of the 
grait, being within the said church yarde, unto* the said Geoig 
Kidland his sonne smote the said William with a great staiff^ 
and would have smitten moo stripts at hym the said William 
then one, but onlye for hurtinge of his said father Robert. 
Examined whither that he dyd se the said WilUam or Robert 
smit throne at th'other, or that William Brandling dyd then 
smite at the said George, ye or noo, he saith that therupon he 
cannott depose ; but he thinks there was such smiting emongst 
them frome the tyme that this examinat first sawe them, byfor 
he came into the church yard to them, for at this examinat com- 
ing to them they were sonderred, he saw the said Brandling and 
Robert Keidland bleid very sore, being then in the church 
yarde, but no blade or stroke he sawe of the said Georg. Ro- 
bert Papdoo and many other, speciall women, were present. 

Janet Doods, of Newcastle, single woman, aged 30 years. 
This examinat dyd se all thoise thre in the place articulat, 

♦ Until. 



78 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

aminat hard the said Atkinson caul Heubank ^^ hoore/' and 
** preist hoore.'* 

By me^ John Whitfield. 



LXXIX. William Richerdson against Margaret 

JOYCYE, IN CAUSA MATRIMONIALI. 9 NoV. 1563. [B] 

John Pattenson, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, wever, aged 
about 60 years. 

He saith that upon fyve yere now bipast, as he beliveth, this 
examinat was in the house of one Michaell Sklaitor, a marinell* 
in this towne then, which was his neighbour, at what tyme the 
said Joycy was dwelling ther. And as this examinat and 
Michaell wif was talking together one Anderson, wif to Robert, 
of S' Nicolas parish, cam in ther also and brought with hir the 
said William Richerdson, and said, ^^ Here is the young man, 
lett us now have a bargain.'^ And this examinat mervaled 
moch att that soden talk, for although he was the next neigh- 
bour he hard of no such bifore that tyme. Examinat what he 
hard then betwixt the parties, he said the said Anderson wyf 
catdd the said Richerdson ^^ cosyn,^^ and moved him to cast his 
love to the said Margaret Joycy, and requierd this berer to 
drink a pott of ale and here of ther commoning, and so he dyd. 
And the said Margaret was content moch to be said as the said 
Andersons wif counseld hir. — Aither of them said they loved 
other well, and more he hard nott. — He saith he saw no gifts or 
tokens gyven bitwixt them at that tym. They dranke to gither, 
and aither said th' loved other well. Examined what aidg he 
belivetb the wence was then, he saith, of his conscience, upon 
12 or 13, at the most, as he belyved veary. — None present but 
the parties and the 2 wyfes abovesaid. — After remembring hym 
self in the premisses he said that WiUiam Richerdson wold have 
had this examinat to have taken the parties hand to handfest 
them, and this deponent denyed so to doo, saing he wold tes« 
tifie the words he hard, and more he dyd not or can not 
saye. + 

* Mariner. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 7^ 

Robert Anderson^ weif^er, aged about 30 years. 

He saith upon 2 yeres senc this examinat was sent for by 
the said William to here what was bitwixt hym and the said 
Margaret^ at what tyme he came to the wenshe's dame's house, 
nigh Alhallow church stile ; what the name of hir master was 
she dwelt withall he can not depose^ but the house was one 
John Patenson'S; which was then settinge ther ; which John 
also said to this deponent at his incommyng, ^' I was sent for by 
Janet Sawer, this goodwif^ for that hir goodman is not at home, 
to handfast thes 2 yong persons/^ the said William and Mar* 
garet, being then booth present. At what tyme he the said 
John Pattenson toke ther hands and handfast them. Examoned 
what was the words of matrimoni then spoken, he saith that 
the said Pattenson said, ^^ William Richerdson, ar ye content 
with this woman Margaret Joycy ?" And he said, Ye, forsouth, 
that he was. And then he said to Margaret, ^^ Ar ye content with 
this man William Richerdsoiy['' and she said, '^ Ye, forsouth." 
And he toke the hands and lait^ throne in th'other, and said, 
"Nowe have I doon asmoche as ther goostly father coulde 
doo, and I take recorde of theis words of you that stands bye.'* 
He saith that one Cuthbert Richerdson, this examinat, and the 
said Patenson, and this deponents wyf, and the wenshis dame, 
one Janet Sawer, were present. — ^The tyme 2 yer, ut supra. — 
The aidge of the wench at that tyme apon 20 yere. — He saw no 
tokens or gyfts.f + 

8 Jan. 1563-4. Judex tulit sententiam pro parte Joey in 
facie curiffi, in presentia Jaeobi Beck capellani et aliorum. 

LXXX. The Will of Robert Loogin, of Kirkle, on^ 
the part of Edward Temple. 28 Feb. 1568-4. [B] 

Roger Hopper, of Kirkley, husbandman, aged about 60 
years. 

He saith that, now in Lent was a twelvemonth, the testator 

*Laid. 

t Richardson, at a subsequent court day, alleged that he had other witnesses, viz.: 
Cuthbert Richardson and Jenet Sawer, but he eventually declined to produce them. 



80 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

declared his last will and testament to John Ogle of Twesell^ 
gent.^ who seing this examinat^ being in the way to se the 
yought * of Kirkley play at fott ball^ cauld upon the said ex- 
aminat to come and here the will and saings of Robert Lo- 
gaine, then being extreme syke ; commyng to hym upon that 
request^ hard the said Robert bequieth all his goods to be 
devyded bytwixt his syster Isabell and the children of the said 
Temple which was sometym Janet Logan children^ sister also 
to the said Robert^ and willyd also that the farmehold he had^ 
which was of a mark rent^ shuld be at th^order of the said 
Temple, for the bringing up of his children, the said Robert's 
cosins, for the spaic of fyve yeres, and then the said farme to 
come to the said Isabell, his other syster, with all favour. — 
John Ogle abovesaid and the parties hard the same. — ^The 
testament was maid in his hauU house,t upon a holloday, at 
after noine. — ^The said Robert gave all his rament to the said 
Temple. + ^ 

LXXXI. Information. An Informacion maid that one 
James Brone of Gatished maried one Gilbert Bulman's wyf of 
Newcastell, who was executor to hir lait husband, and stodd 
chardged with hir children and the children of Edward Bulman 
of Newcastell, which goeth a begging. [B] 

LXXXII. Defamatio. 14 Feb. 1564-5. Janet Gelles 
against Margaret Wood, in causa diffamacionis, viz. that she 
put evill unholsom stu£f for man body in hir drinke, viz. 
booreley. — Pax in causa. [B] 

LXXXIII. Defamatio. 10 July 1565. Agnes Parker, wife 
of Humphrey Parker, against Dorothy Robinson, wife of Ed- 
ward Robinson, in causa diffamacionis, viz. that she came more 
liklye to steill a pig then to se them. [B] 

LXXXIV. Margaret Potts against Bertram Smith. 
9 OcTOB. 1565. [BJ 

* Young men. 

't' The room in which the master and mistress sate and dined with their servants, 
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ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 81 

John Dag, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, wever^ aged 22 
yeres. 

He saith^ about 2 monethes senc^ this examinat was in one 
Rauf Caisleies his M^ house^ with whom he doith dwells and 
the parties was chiding and skalding unreasonable, bifore his 
master wyndow, and this examinat, heryng such a noyes, 
thought ther had ben som fray, and therupon came furthe and 
hard the said smith revylinge the said Margaret Potts, and 
cauld hir drabe and rotten drabe and bichefoxe. — One dame 
Gibson, dame Cairsley, and also a great sort moo, was present. 
— He saith yt was upon a Satterday at night, towerd the 
glomynge, about 7 or S^^ weiks senc. 

LXXXV. Depamatio. Ts May 1564. William Whitskaills 
against Cuthbert Newton, in causa dififamacionis, viz. that he 
shuld steill fyve barrells of hexing. 

Cuthbert Newton against William Whitskaills, viz. a fas teif 
(false thief). Referred to four men. [B] 

LXXXVI. Perjurium. 4 Jul. 1564. Robert Brandlinge, 
knight, against William Forster of Wallyngton, in causa per- 
jurii. The same against Robert Jennynge of Burnton and 
Bartram Dalton of Newcastle.* 

Christopher Rochester against Marion Hall. — That he was a 
yawdesteiller.f [B] 

LXXXVII. Defamation. 10 Oct. 1564. Robert Reidheid 
against Isabell Baxter — ^viz. quod erat promus turpitudinis. She 
confesses, but justified — viz. that he called her a hoore. [B] 

LXXXVIII. Defamatio. 5 Nov. 1564. Elinor Bainbrig 
against Agnes Croisyer, singlewoman — viz. that she had borne 
2 children, and that the fathers of them was hanged. [B] 

LXXXIX. Defamatio. 16 Jan. 1564-5. Janet Poill 
against Janet Foster in a cause of defamation. Comparuit vir 

♦ The charge was that they had taken a fidse oath at Newcastle before Master Gar- 
grave, a councillor of the Queen. They confessed, and were restored aacramentis ecclesto!, 
t Horsestealer. 

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82 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

maritus PoiU. Negat satisfacere prime. Deinde fatetur se to 
be the occasion of the hanging out of the wispe.* [B] 

XC. Roger Foster against John Stobbs, in causa dip- 

FAMAGIONIS. 9 OCT. 1565. [B] 

Nicholas Tailyer, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, chandler, 
aged 40 years. 

He saith that, at Lammes last past, this examinat had a suit 
in the countye at Throkle against the said Stobbs, for certain 
lend money. At what tyme the said Nicholes brought in the 
said Roger Foster, when the said Stobbs refused, and said 
openlye that he the said Foster was a perjured person. — He 
saith M^ Luke Ogle the sheriffe and all the hole court hard thes 
words. + 

Edward Alwood, of Pontyland, yoman, and servant to M^^ 
Mytford of Pontyland, aged about 40 years. 

He saith, about mydsomer last, as he remembrith, at the 
countye holden at Alnwick, this examinat being then present, 
at what tyme Nicoles Taylyeur abovesaid had a suit against the 
said Stobbs for the some of 31^. and the 12 men panelled 
upon the matter, Taylyer brought his witnes, emong whom he 
brought in the said Roger Foster, which the said Stobbs re- 
fused, as a perjured person, to whom the sheriff, the said Mr. 
Ogle, said, ^' Foster, comes thou in here to here wyttness and is 
a perjured man ? this fellow Stobbs saith that thou hast forsworn 
thy self in the court of Throkle,*^ and this upon his othe he 
takes of his conscience to be trew + 

XCI. Janet Wood, singlewoman, against William 
Rand, in causa matrimoniali. 9 Oct. 1565. [B] 

Edward Allenson, of Pontyland, clerk, aged 73 years. 

He saith he haith known the man senc he was borne, for he 
is this examinat sister son, and the said Janet this 4 yere. He 
saith he never harde no words of contract bitwixt them. Mary, 

* a wisp is a handful of straw or hay. A man is said to hang out a broom when 
his wife is from home. Here, hanging out the wisp seems to convey a notion of con- 
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ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 83 

about 2 yere senc^ he perceyyeth they wold have bein content 
to have maried to gither^ yf this examinat wold have bein con« 
tent to have lett them have combe and dwelt in this examinat^s 
house : but that he was not wiUinge he canst depose. 

By me, Edwardus Allanson. 

William Loyb, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, marinell, aged 50 
years. 

He saith, upon the matter, the said Janet ever for the most 
part, when she came to this towne of Newcastell, she wold sett 
hir horse in one of his backhouses, and this examinate toke hir 
ever as welcome. Mary, he suspect evill bitwixt hir and the 
said William Rand, for Rand wold ever come and enquire for 
hir, and she aswell willing to come and go with hym, so sus- 
peciouslye, that this examinat wold ever say, that thoise two 
wold one day make thre; and so he wold tell the said Rand; 
and Rand wold say, that yf yt jshould so chance, ** I will make 
hir as good as myself.^* -f 

XCII. Probatio. Nov. 1565. Quo die magister Barnardus 
Gilpyng,* clericus, et Rogerus Raw, baiker, comparuerunt, et 
exhibuerunt testamentum sive ultimam voluntatem cujusdamNi- 
cholai Carr, tanner, quod, sive quam, petierunt probari, &c. [B] 

XCIII. Defamatio. 14 May 1566. Robert Watson against 
Edward Smith, in causa difiamacionis, viz. that his wyf was a 
lymer. [B] 

XCIV. Defamatio. 11 June 1566. Robert ByUye and his 
wife against Katherine Blithman, in causa difFamacionis, viz. 
^^hold eeyd lymber theiff,^' and that he shuld recett certain 
corne of S*" Robert Brandlyng's, so moch as wold fyne his house 
one hole yere. [B] 

XCV. Defamatio. 8 October 1566. John Hall against 
Janet Armestrong, in causa diffamacionis — that he shuld have 
murdered and put down his two wyfes. [B] 

* Afterwards the celebrated Rector of Houghton-le-Spring. 

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84 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

XCVI. Exorcist. 26 Jan. 1566-7- Margareta Lambert 
against Elizabeth Lawson. Ad sententiandum in prox. John 
Lawson^ husband of Elizabeth^ informs that the said Margaret 
is an exorcist; " that for certaine things lackinge she turned a 
seve upon a pair of sheres.'^ [B] 

XCVII. Defamatio. 4 Feb. 1566-7. Margaret Lambert 
against John Lawson, in causa diffamacionis — ^that she was a 
chermer. Comparuit reus et negavit se habere testes — ex auditu 
dixit. [B] 

XCVIII. Defamatio. 15 Ap. 1567- Helen Reisley against 
John Potts — ^viz. that she was a drabe, and that she was 
worthie a tar barrell, a cart, and a whip. [B] 

XCIX. Penance. 29 May 1567. Elizabeth Barber. The 
Judge haithe appointed hir to, do hir penannce in Allhalowes 
churche of Palme Sonday and Good Fridaye. [B] 

C. Defamation. Nov. 1567. Alexander Fetherstonhaugh 
against Alice Robinson, in causa diffamacionis — that he was a 
theif and wold be hanged, as all his fore ellers* was. [B] 

CL Defamatio. 16 Dec. 1567. Agnes wife of Richard 
Beid against Janet Nerand, in causa diff., viz. that she shuld 
report that the said Agnes shuld sett dogs of hir brother in 
lawe Thomas Reid^s children. [B] 

CII. Defamatio.. Margaret Dawson wife of George against 
Janet Gyllis wife of Gilbert, in causa diff. viz. that she was a 
barrell drome, and that she was ever kend for nought all the 
daies of hir lyf. [B] 

cm. Defamation. Fortune Car, singlewoman, aged 13, 
by Ralph Burrell her stepfather, against Alice Atkinson— viz. 
that she had stolne one silver spopne. 

CIV. Defamation. 20 Jan. 1567-8. Magdalen Robson 
against Robert Horsley — ^viz. that she should teir a cheffe and a 
neckurcheffe of a dycke.f 

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ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 85 

CV. The WILL OP Thomas Wilkinson. 21 Oct. 1568. [B] 

Cristoper Moiser^ of Newcastle, glover, aged 50 years. 

He saith that he this examinat was some tyme the said 
Thomas prentes, and lemed his Qccupacion of hym, and was 
also a wittnes of his testament and last will. Upon this occasion 
the testator, being sore syke and in great danger of deathe, by 
thestimacion of many discreit men and women that had ben to 
se as he dyed, and yett in no wyse he wolde be moved and per- 
suadyd in any wise to make his testament, havinge ever such 
an hope in his owne amendment Wherupon this examinat 
and William Norham and Roger Davison went in to visyt 
hym, and this examinat, according to his dewtie and good will, 
moved hym, for the more quietnes of his mynde, to make his 
will and dispose his goods, which wold be a greate occasion of 
such quietnes in his hart, that thereby, by the grace of God, he 
shuld recover health the better ; and ther upon the said Thomas 
declared his hole mynd and last will according to the wordes 
of his testament that was exhibited in parchment to Mr. Com* 
missarye, 12th of October 1568, which testament the said ex- 
aminat hard redd to hym at the tyme of his examinacion, 
which this deponent doith afferme and aveir, byfore Good, to 
be the trewe and last wiU of the said testator, in every article 
therein, and not augmentyd in any article or clause thereof. — 
He this examinat wrote all the wordes that was redd in the 
said will, in parchment, by the commanndement of the said 
testator, and by the wordes that came frome his owne mouth, 
without any mocion or promptynge of any man. Examined de 
circumstantibus he saith the said Norham and Davison and 
certain women, which this examinat gave no respect unto. 
Examined what he thinks of the testament, that was exhibited 
this present day the 26 of October, bering dait the 15th of 
September in anno predicto, negat penitus. Examined whither 
the testator's mynde was, that yf default of yshue of his son 
John, that then his lands to come and discend to his brother 
John children or noo, he saith that that article is most trew. — 

CllRISTOPHE]^ MoISER. 



86 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

CVI. Constance Moffbtt against John Trewhat. 

27 Oct. 1568. [B] 

Isabell Pattenson^ wife of John Pattenson^ of Newcastle^ 
weiver, aged 40 years. 

She saith that, betwixt Pentecost and Lammas last past, the 
said John Trewhat occupied moch to the said Constance house, 
which Constance was tenand to this examinat^s husband ; and, 
upon suche voice and report as went upon them in the streit, 
the said examinat was sent by hir husband to dischardg the 
said Constance of hir house ; and founde the parties both sit- 
tinge to gither; and said hir messiag to the said Constance^ 
and then also forbadd the said John to repair thither any more, 
and he said he wolde not, for hir pretending that ther was a 
matter of mariadge towerds betwixt them^ but the words of 
contract this examinat hard nonne. The parties went togither 
into North' to hir frends^ to demand towher,* and afterward 
the parties disagred bitwixt themselves and was at words. And 
this examinat came in to the said house, at that present^ and 
harde the said Constanc say to the said John, '^ Take thou the 
plight and perell, and for any thyng of debt that thou art be- 
hynd with me I will forgye the a great part therof.'' And he 
said that he wold n©t doo, "but gyve me my faith and my 
trewth againe, and I will sell the clothes of my bak to pay that 
I owe the, and moch of that I have to be quit of the.^^ — One 
dame Wardley hard thes words, ivhich was in this examinat's 
house the latter tyme that this examinat came in to the said 
house. + 

CVII. William Bramwell against George Wilkin- 
son, in causa diffamacionis. Late in 1568. [B] 

John Borne, of Meirsfein, in Co. Northumb. husbandman^ 
aged 50 years. 

He saith that, about 14 dayes next before fastens evon last 
past, George Wilkinson, dwellinge then in the towne of Meir- 

* Tocher, money, goods. Here, a marriage portion. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 87 

fen^ came furthe of his owne house^ and said audiently in the 
streyt, " I wolde I shuld^ or culde, here my coke crowe upon 
fastens evon * in ther bellyes that stole hym/^ And this ex- 
aminat, questioning hym upon that matter immediately after^ 
the said George said, ^' I wyll sweir that thoise that dwelt in 
one of thoise 2 houses had my coke, and that he wold stand 
up upon paysunday and avouch that to be trewe.'^ Examined 
what houses he named, or then went upon, he saith, upon the 
said William and his father, and speciallie upon the said 
William. — Nicoles Richerdson hard thoise wordes, which was 
then standyng with this examinat, saying that he this examinat 
and the said William father's was brethren children. -I- 

CVIII. Janet Dalton against Robert Sergant. [B] 

Margaret Atkinson, wife of Robert Atkinson of New- 
castle, glasier, aged 26 years. 

She saith that, about the feast of St. Martin last past, this 
examinat's husband and one John Man was working at Mr. 
Gilping's, and that tyme, about sex of the cloke in an evening, 
the said man's wyfe and one Agnes Jaxsou, the wyfe of Henry 
Jackson, came in to this examinat's house to drinke with hir. 
And then after came in the said Robert Sergian, upon what errand 
or occasion this examinat cannot depose. And at his coming 
this examinat, remembring that she was and had bein laitly 
at one James Robinson house, wher she sawe the said Janet 
Dalton wofuUy arayed by hir husband, by the occasion of the 
said Sargain ; and therupon this examinat immediatly said to 
the said Robert, *^ Woo worth them that puts evill bitwixt man 
and wyfe !'' to whom he annswerd, " Goo hang thee ! I have 

, and yf yt went to the worst, she must ryde on th'one 

syde of the cart and I of th'other.'' + 

Witness on the part of Sargain. Henry Lightfott of 
Newcastle, embroderer, aged 50 years. 

He saith that, about 14 daies byfore fastyn even last past, 
being at that tyme a breake bytwixt the said Dalton and his 

t Shrove Tuesday. The cock had been stolen to be pelted to death, according to 
the barbarous custom then observed on that day. 



88 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

wyf Janett, the said Janet was some tyme at this examinat's 
house, and some tyme at one James Robinson's ; which James 
and this examinat^ at hir the said Janet request, thought good to 
make a love day bytwixt them. And^ understanding that the 
said Daulton wolde supp at the said Sergaint's, was mynded to 
speak with him, the said Dawlton, about the Over Dein Brig ; 
whome unto them com the said Sergaint, and badd them all to 
supper to his house, wherin suppett also one Lighton, a 
smithe, and his wyfe, whome unto the said Jannett annswerd 
that she wolde nott go to supper with no such vile vyllands as 
he was saing, '^ Falsh vile knave, thou wold have my husband to 
bryng the pox to me as thou brought them to thi wyfe/' And 
when the said Sergain toke wyttnes to this examinat then the 
said Janet cauld him ** falsh pokye theiff,*' and that she had 
said nothing but that she wold prove. + 

CIX. Janet Cooke, wipe op John Cooke, against Isa- 

BELL, WIFE OF EdWARD HeDLET, IN CAUSA DIFPAMA- 

gionis. Circa 1569. [B] 

Elizabeth Elsden, of Newcastle, late wife of John Elsden, 
deceased, aged 20 years. 

She saithe that, about Candlemasse last past, this examinate 
and Isabell Hedley being in the howse of one Elinor Hall, this 
examinat's mother, the said Isabell said to this examinat that 
^' Jenett Cooke had not beine so riche, had not the stolne purse 
beine, which she dyd steill at .John Newton's.'* Unto whom 
this examinat said, ^' Had she a stolne purse ?*' Unto whom 
the said Isabell annswered and said, "Ye, marye, had she, and 
was caried to the New Yaite for the same.*' — No mo was pre- 
sent. + 

ex. Waulbs against Browell. [B] 

Mathew Wilde, of Winlerton, aged 30 years. 

He saith that, about Candlemas last, this examinat goinge 
furthe of Newcastle frome markett with Richarde Flatte and 
the said John Waules, this examinat, seinge George Browell, 



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ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 89 

said unto the said Flatt and Waules, ^^ Yonder is he that would 
be lord of Bradley hall/' And the said Waules answered, 
" Let hym take yt whan he can get it ; " whiche wordes the 
said Browell heringe, said unto the said Waules, "Such mayn- 
swom harlotts as thou art kepes me from it." 

Richard Flatte, of Winlerton, butcher, aged about 34 
years. 

— "I will prove the and all thy partakers maynswome har- 
lotts/^ + 

CXI. Defamatio. 4 May 1568. Jasper Arkle of Gos- 
forth, against Martin Atchason, in causa diff., viz. that he 
wittinglye solde one stolne shepe skyn in the towne of New- 
castell. [B] 

CXII. Defamatio. 26 Oct. 1568. Margaret Nicolson, 
singlewoman, against Agnes, wife of Robert Blenkinsop, in 
causa diff. viz. ^^ hyte hoore, a whipe and a cart and a franc 
hoode,* waies met for the, my lasse, wenst J have a halpeny 
halter for the to goo up Gallygait and be hanged V [B] 

*CXIII. Defamatio. 7 Tiec. 1568. Ann Foster against 
Elizabeth Elder, in causa diff. That the wyfes of the Close 
wold say that she was a spanyell hoore. [B] 

CXIV. Defamatio. 26 April, 1569. Peter Richerdson 
and Isabell his wife against Alice Stokoo, in causa diff. viz, 
that he or his wyf stole a silver whistell. [B] 

CXV. Defamatio. 19 Aug. 1569. Janet Leber against 
Janet Swynbome, in causa diff. viz. that she was whippet out 
of Morpeth for a skolde. [B] 

CXVI. Defamatio. 10 Oct. 1569. Laurenc Dawgleis 
against John Wright, in causa diff. viz. that he was a skott. [B] 

* The French hood was probably another name for the hrankSf an instrument or 
head-dress used in Newcastle to punish scolds. See it engraved in Brand's Newcastle, 

ii. p. 47. 

t Woe is me. % Wilt thou. 



90 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

CXVII. Katherine Reid against Isabell Hynde^ in 

CAUSA DIFFAMACIONIS. CiRC. 1569. [B] 

Agnes Dods, late wife of Edward Dods of Newcastle^ 
shipwright, aged 23 years. 

She saith that, the weik byfore Easter last past, one George 
Dawson and the said Isabell was in this examinate's house, 
what other certain day this deponent cannott depose, at what 
time the said Isabell spoke to a baster lide boy of the said 
Isabell, which the said Georg bygatt of hir and put to this exa- 
minat to boor,* thes words, **Thow shall not caule Katherine 
Reid mother, for she caul me hoor, and I never maid fault but 
for this christen soull, and they wyll nott dyttf ther mowethes 
with a bowell of wheit that wold say she had bore a bame in 
Chirton." — She said the said Dawson, that shulde mary the 
said Katherin, was present. 

Helinor Reid, wife of John Reid of Newcastle, merchannt, 
aged 26 years. 

She saith that the said Katherine haith been sick thes 2 last 
yeres, and for the most part this twelmonth haith bein in house 
with this examinat, hir brother's wyf. And that the said Kath- 
ren toke on very hevylye for that she had gotten knowled that 
the said Isabell had slandered hir, and that she had borne a 
barne in Chirton. Whereupon this deponent said " Suster 
Kathren, be of good cheir, and cast not your self downe again 
for any such talk ; And, for ease of your myend, I wyll myself 
goo and question hir of hir words." And therupon this exami- 
nat went to M^ Th. Clibbom house, and the wench Isabell was 
out a doores. And to J she came yn this deponent was open- 
ing the matter to hir dame. And at last the said Isabell came 
in, to whome hir dame Clibbom^s wyfe said, ^' Thou hast brought 
thyself in treble with this good wife's suster," pointing to this 
examinat then present, and said, ^^ Thy M"" will not be in treble 
therwith." And the said Isabell maid answer, ^^ What, Kathe- 
rine Reid ?*^ " Yea," saith this examinat, " she will have you to 
answer the sklander that ye have maid upon hir, which was that 

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ECCLESIASTICAL PR0CEEDIN08. 91 

she had borne a bame in Chirton/' And the said Isabell ann- 
swered, after many folish words^ that that which she had sayd 
she wold say ytt again^ for that she had one wytnes for hir. -|- 

CXVIIL Defamatio. 31 Jan. 1569-70. Thomas Tomling- 
son against Matthew Armestrong, in causa diff. — ^that he was 
so fals of his toung that ther was [not] a worde of his mouth 
worthie to be trusted, [B] 

CXIX. Defamatio. Bertram Dalton against Marmaduke 
Burrell and Isabell his wife^ in causa diff.^ viz. that he shuld 
steill his own goodes^ hens, and duckes^ and gyve the same to 
Lighton's wyfe^ whome withall he the said Bartram shuld lyve 
ungodlye. [B] 

CXX. Defamatio. Margaret Reed against Margaret How- 
hett, in causa diff. viz. that she was a horse goodmother water 
wych. [B] 

CXXI. Inventarium. 1 Feb. li569-70. Quo die com- 
paruit Margareta Bewike^ vidua, nuper uxor Cuthberti Bewyk^ 
mercatoris^ in carcere defuncti^ et exhibuit Inventarium bono- 
rum dicti viri sui, ad summam 558. 5d., et debita sua ad valo- 
rem 71/* ac ultra petens^ &c., renundans. [B] 

CXXII. Defamatio. 11 April 1570. Giles and Gerard 
Hearon against 'Margaret Sewell, in causa diff. viz. that she 
cauled them Scottes Martyn sonnes. [B] 

CXXIII. Defamatio. 27 June 1570. Leonard Tayler, 
against Elinor Awndersone, in causa diff. viz. that he was a 
gouse and a hen thefe and all his. [B] 

CXXIV. Defamatio. 10 July 1570. William Monkches- 
ter against Micheson, in causa diff. viz. that yf he had a wyfe 
of the condicion of hir dam he had rather ther wer a milston 
about his neck in the bottom of Tyne. [B] 



92 DBP08ITION8 AND OTHER 

CXXV. CURISTOFBR BOWHAM AOAINST JoHN SnAWDONB 

OF Newborns^ in causa diffamacionis. 

Roger Smith^ of Throkle^ co. Northum. yoman, aged 60 
years, Circ. 1570. [B] 

He saith that^ about thre daies of S^ Cuthbert day in harvest 
last pastj this examinat was with his M^* Antony Ratcliff esquire 
at Cuthbert Carr's mariadg here in Newcastell^ being his baly 
of Throkle^ and the same parties fell in communicacion, and at 
words about a farmehold of the said M^ Ratcliff in Throkle, 
which Snawdon dwelt upon^ and of lait latten to Bowham, and 
in ther communicacion bifore the said M^" Ratcliff^ Snawdon 
cauld Bowham a theife. — He sayth one Thomas Atkinson and 
his M^ hard the said Snawdon say soo^ and no moo, for he 
thinks ther wold have bein no matter therupon but that M' 
Ratcliff, hering ther talk, and that Bowham was cauld a theif, 
said he shuld trye hymself a trew man, or ells he shuld not 
dwell under hym ; and therfor Bowham cauld Snadon to the 
law — ^the worde was spoken bifore Mr. Ellison doore in the 
Big Market — Bowham married his suster's doughter. -f- 

CXXVI. Margaret More, singlbwoman, against John 
Johnson, of Wyndlington, in causa matrimoniali. 

Circ. 1570. [B] 

George More, of Newcastle, mariner, aged 46 years. 

He saith that, come Ash weddinsday shalbe fyve yer, this 
deponent consydering that his cosyn the said Margaret was 
with child with the said Johnson, which had used his, this de- 
ponent's, house in the way of honestye, to mary hyr, as he 
alleged, thought good to take the said wench and 2 honest men, 
George Robinson, beir bruer, and Roger Raw, beir bruer also, 
to the said Johnson, wher he dwelt, to her what he wold say in 
the matter bifore them ; and coming thither they all to gyther 
found hym at the plewghe in Wyndlington feild, and com- 
muning upon the matter the said Johnson was content to take 
her to his wife and she hym to hir husband, at such tyme as he 
came out of his M*" service, who dwelt then with one Kckerell. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 93 

—He was a plowing in a field by the water syde, cauld Wind- 
lington firth. + 

CXXVIL Extracts from the libel aoainst Gawen 
Lawson and George Walbt^ of the parish of Mit- 
fourth. [Dr. Swift's Book, f. 97.] 

— That the curate of Mitfourth, about Easter last, being 



in the pulpit and admonishinge the parishe to quietnes, accor- 
dinge to his bounden deuty, by the Queue's Majestie^s lawes, 
for that he sawe them unquiet concerning the orderinge of cer- 
tane stalles, one Gawin Lawson said openly to the same curate 
*^ Come downe, and leave thy pratlinge,*' to the great disquiet- 
inge of the same parish. 

That the same Gawen Lawson and one George Walby, 

with divers other, at eveninge praier on Ester day last, in the 
foresaid church of Mitfourth, and at the redinge of the firste 
leason, did sckofe, laughe, and gest at such as did coughe then 
and ther, that the minister could not say fourth God^s service, 
but was compelled to leave of for that time of praier, to the 
dishonoring of God and the defasinge of the Queues lawes. 

That the said Gawen Lawson did at the dew tyme of 

the Visitacion after Easter last forbid the churchwardens of 
Mitfourth to present any falte within that parishe, and did hin- 
der as well the 12 to chuse 4 churchwardens as also the 24 to 
order the stalles, saing that nether bishop nor chanceler shuld 
medle with ther stalls, with such lyke words, to the disquiet- 
inge of the hole parish. 

— That the said Gawen Lawson, beinge required of the 
curate to put fourth of the church one John Doffenby, as a per- 
son excommunicated, in tyme of service, he openly refused so 
to do. 

That the said Gawen Lawson was then and is a church- 
warden. 

CXXVIII. Witnesses against George Lawson and 

George Walbye. [A] 

Edward Robinson of Mytforde, co, Northumb. weaver, 
aged 40 years. 



94 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

He was in the church the tyme articulate, and being then a 
very could yere, and many one ther evill trobled with a hoost,* 
which was so farvent that many other smiled and laught ther 
at, wherupon the Vicar, at the evening praier, was so disquiet 
and leff off the service. Examinat what mysbyhav^, coughing, 
or laughin that the said Liawson or Walby maid then, he saith 
he sat in the stall with Walbve which maid no offenc, but 
onlye smyled with all other. And for Lawson he cannot depose, 
for he satt not nigh him. 

Robert Foots, of Mytford, smith, aged 60 years. 

He confesseth that ther was such a sounding noise throwgh 
the hole church, but who was the fawter or beginner this exa- 
minat cannott depose. Examined what he knoweth of Wawbey 
misusing or Lawson, nescit deponere. 

John Elison, of Mytford, yoman, aged 28 years. 

He saith that at the tyme articulat ther was such laugh- 
ing and cowghing at the evening praier that therupon the 
parishioners admonished 2 tymes by the said vicar . . . 

. . . whereupon . . . saing that the lawghing began 
about cakes that was casten in the said church, in the tyme of 
the servic, but he knoweth not by whome. + 



CXXIX. Extracts from Libel against John Dofenbie, 
Roger Fennicke of the parish of Mytfourth, and 
Mark Ogle of the parish of Ponteland. [Dr. Swift's 

Book, 102.] 

That one John Doflfenby of Pigden, not having before 



his eies the feare of God or the lawes of the land, did on a 
Sonday about the feast of the purification of Mary last paste, 
beinge in the church of Mytfourth at morninge prayer, spake 
divers unsemely words openly in the hearinge of the parish, 
chiding, blaspheminge, and brallinge with one Roger Fennicke 
for one stale or lyke matter. 

And namely threateninge to break his heade, callinge him 
theffe of kyne, and saying t — d in thy teithe, and that he wold 

* a short tickling cough ; still in use, but now chiefly applied to cattle. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 95 

lay his wynierde on his pallet ; with dyvers such lyke evill, un- 
godly^ and unlawfuU words^ to the unquietinge of the hole 
parishe, and evill example of others. 

That the said Roger Fenicke said also openly among 

dyverse other blasphemous and slanderous words in the church, 
that he cared not for DoiFenby, and bad him go over the church 
yeard dyke, and gave him hold of him and he wold forgeve him 
his death. 

That thes things be and was so notoriouse that not onely 

Christopher BuUocke and Gawen Lawson, churchwardens of 
Mitfourth, with others, had much ado to quiet them at that 
present, but also the said Doffenby and Fenecke accused the 
on the other openly in the Consistorie of Durham, and in other 
places, as occasion served of talke. 

That the same John Dofienby, being a person excom- 
municate, came into Mitfourth church in tyme of service, and 
beinge admonished to departe thence would not, but gave evill 
language, saying that he cared not for the Commissary and his 
lawes, nor for the curate, and bad them com who durst and cary 
him out of the church, for they shuld first bynd his hands and 
his feat ; wherupon the curate was driven to leave of service at 
the Gospell. 

That the same John Dofienby, upon Sonday next after 

Ester day last past, did lykewise quarell, chide, and brail within 
the church yard of Mytfurth with one Marke Ogle of Ponte- 
land parishe, strikeinge at the said Ogle in the same place with 
one lance staffe or javeling, and the said Marke did draw one 
sword at the same John Dofienby, meaning to strike one at the 
other. 

CXXX. Testes pboducti exparte MAROABETiE Milneb, 

SIN6LEWOMAN, CONTRA ROBERTUM OOLE, IN CAUSA MA- 

TRiMONiALi. [C. ad init.] 

Henry Spoore, of Newcastle upon Tyne, wever, aged 24 
years. 

He saith he haith knowne them the parties this 4 yeres com 
Lamess next. He saith that, upon Sondaye before fastens 



96 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

eavon was a twelmonth, the said Margaret had the chardge of 
M^ Thomas Mihier's brewing, lait at nighty towered 11 of the 
clok^ which brewing was in on Robert Doffynby this deponent's 
maister's house; at what tyme the said Ogle came and bair hir 
compcny, and had moch communicacion with hir ; emongst the 
which this examinate hard hym say, that he wold marie hir, the 
said Margaret, as hys wedded wyff, and forsake all other women 
for hir. Examined, whoo moo hard thes words, he saith one 
Agnes Doffynby, singlewoman, which was there with hir. Exa- 
mined, upon what occasion this examinate hard those wordes, 
he saith he was in his bedd, which was nighe the said brew- 
house, and hard them in such talke, and rose out of his bedd 
and loked in at a wyndoo at them, and hard ther talk and saw 
ther doings. Examined, whither the parties dyd se this exa- 
minate then or noo, saith he is certain the neither saw ne hard 
hym. Examined what more he hard bytwixt them, he saith he 
hard no more, but that the said Margaret maid the said Ogle 
annswer, when he promised hir manage, as is abovesaid, that 
she was also content to mary with him. 

He saith that upon Fastyns evon the said Ogle came to this 
examinate being in his . . , and praied hym to go and make 
merie with hym and the said Margaret in the brewhouse above- 
said ; and this examinate, at the said Ogle^s request, so dyd, 
and told them of the communicacion this examinate hard the 
Sonday at night last before that tyme, and Ogle confessed the 

same to be trewe. 

Signum + Hbnrici Spoore. 



CXXXI. The Farmer or impropriator of Hartburne 

AGAINST . . . [C. f. 16.] 

Roger Fenwicke, of Rotheley, gent., aged 30 years. 

He saith he belevithe there is 4 offering dayes, but 

what they shud offier he wote not, butt this deponent paid 2^ 

at Easter last for his offerynge, and so did his neighbours 

for hymself and all his houshold he paid 2^ apece, at Easter 
last. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PR0CEEDIN08. 97 

John Twbddall, of the parish of Hartbome, yoman, aged 
54 years. 

He saith he knoweth William Thornton of long tyme ; 

He is of Harbome parish, althoughe he use to Wytton chapell. 

He saith in tymes past they paid candles of Candlemas 

daye, and offered at buryalles and weddings, and at Easter lid» 
but now they paye no suche offering, but at the last Easter they 
paid 2d, for all.— —He never sawe 4 offeringe dayes kept, but at 
Easter I j^, but the last yere. 

WrLLiAM Raye, of South Myddleton, husbandman. 

He saith that he this deponent nor his fore ellers* nmner 

paid more but lid* for ther offerings, by the space of 40 yeres. 
He remembrithe well they paid no more, tyll the last Easter 
that M^ Wyddrington requierd hym and other to pay 2d. and if 
it were not lawful he wolde repaye it agayn. + 



CXXXII. Ex PARTE Agnetis Cabr advebsus Thomam 

Carr, maritum suum [C. f. 21.] 

William Bayker, of the city of Durham, yoman, aged 
about 40 years. 

This examinate was in Durham that present day, when the 
parties and all their compeny cam home with them frome their 
mariadge here to Durham, wher they dwelt as man and wif to* 
gither, by the common report of the people. Mary, this exa- 
minate was not present at their mariadge. 

He saith that he belyvith that Thomas Carr, articulate, haith 
not used nor entretyd the said Agnes, his wyf, as an honestman 
ought to have doon ; for this examinate was personally present 
at one tynie, enspeciall when the parties had bein at the lawe, 
and the said Thomas then commanndyd to take hir, the said 
Agnes his wyfe, home with hym, and to use hir as he aught to 
doo ; and immediatlie after ther home commynge quietly to- 
gither, according as thei were comandyd, this examinate, and 

* Ancestors, fore elders. 
H 



98 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

one John Woodmose, was doon to the market-place, and com- 
myng by the said Calx's doore, the said Agnes was wepinge 
and sore lammentyng, sainge that hir said husband Thomas 
wold not suffer hir to tarye that night with hym in his house 
here in Durham, but comandyd hir then, being towerd night, 
to goo to Feildehouse, which she said she wolde nott. And at 
this examinate's comming home he founde the said Agnes in 
his owne house in the Balye. And, after moch talke that this 
examinate and his wyf had with hir, this deponent came doon 
in the streit again to hir said husband Thomas Carr, and 
reasoned with hym, mervalinge moch that he wold not use and 
intreit his said wyf accordinge as he was commandyd. And 
was then well content, saing yt was not well doon to put hir 
out of his house towerd night frome hym self, which Thomas 
Car gave this examinate so light and short annswers in such 
angre and greiff, that this examinate therupon thougth veryly, 
and yett doith, that he, the said Thomas, had moch misused 
his wyf; and further to this article he canott depose upon his 
owne knowledg. Mary, the said Agnes, with weping eies, 
haith affirmed all the resydew of this article to be trewe to this 
examinate and his wyfe, saing, hir said husband had not used 
hir as his wyfe, nor wolde suffer hir aither to gyve hym meat 
and drinck, or take hir self any, but used [her] worse and a 
servannt, and had hir meat gyvon by a youngwoman one of the 
said Thomas maid servaunts. 

Signum + W. Baikeb. 



CXXXIII. EXAMINACIO WiLLIELMI ClAVERYNGE AD AR- 
TICULOS CONTRA BUM PROPOSITOS. [C. f. 35.] 

He saithe he knoweth Roger Wright synce saynt Elynmas 
last, for that he haithe maryed the said Roger syster. 

He saithe that Roger Wright was at this examinate's house 
frome Whitsonday last past till Saynt Luke daye last past, 
eating, drineking, and lyinge for the most parte, in suche sorte 
as other his folks in the house dyd. And at saynt Lukemas 
this deponente and the said Roger went to Newe Castle fair. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 99 

And at that tyme he sent hym to John Swynbome of Wylom, 
in Northumberland, where he remained till wynter fayr daye at 
Hexham. And after that this deponente and he cam to this 
examinate's home, wher the said Roger abode to suche tyme 
that he brought hym to the Chancelor about 9 weeks ago, that 
was about Hilarye daye last past. 

He saith that Mr. Chancelor admonished hym not to have 
anything to doo with Roger Wright, bbthe judicially and pri- 
vately, during the time of the excommunicacion. 

He deniethe that ever he was of the consaill with Roger 
Wright of the giving awaye of his goodes frome hym, nor this 
examinate haithe any parte therof. 

He saithe in deede if the sheref balif cam to his house with- 
out a warrannt, and drewe his latche, he wold be action to hym, 
and he had better have gone about. 

He saith he spaik no suche wordes, that he had spoken and 
wold speke to Roger Wright beinge excommunicate. 

Fatetur se dixisse talia verba, viz. that if he were dryven to 
mary suche one she shuld have small joy of it. 

Fatetur se dixisse that he wold procure my Lord of Bed- 
furth^s lettre to get hym out of pryson. 

He saith that he said she that caused hym to be put in pryson 
shuld get hym out or he shuld never come out for him. 

He said to Tod if he had been in Wright* s cote he wold not 
have gone to the gaoU with hym. 



CXXXIV. Witchcraft.* [C. f. 36 b.] 

Robert Durham, of Walshend, farmer, aged 7^ years. 

He is sure that Jenkyn Pereson was in troble for a mayr. 

He haithe hard saye that Jennet Pereson uses wytchecraft in 
measuringe of belts to preserve folks frome the farye. 

Catherine Fenwickb, daughter of Constance Fenwicke, 
generos." aged about 20 years. 

* Extracted from a series of Exceptions against the Witnesses in a Tithe Suit rela- 
tive to the Living of Benton. 

H 2 



100 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

She saithe she doithe knowe that William PeresoD^ Jenkyn 
S01I9 staill a mayre, but whether Jenkyn was privye therto or no 
she wote not. 

She saithe she haithe herd that Jenkyn Pereson was a for- 
sworn man, but wherein she knoweth not. 

She saithe that about 2 yeres ago hir cosyn Edward Wyd- 
drington had a childe seke, and Jenkyn Pereson wyfe axed of 
Thomas Blaekberd^ then this deponente mother servannte, how 
Byngemen {Benjamin) the child did, and bad the said Blaek- 
berd byd the childe's mother comme and speke with hir. And 
upon the same this deponent went unto hir; and the said 
Pereson wyfe said the child was taken with the farye, and bad 
hir sent 2 for southrowninge {south-runninff) water, and theis 2 
shuU not speke by the waye, and that the child shuld be washed 
in that water, and dib the shirt in the water, and so hang it 
upon a hedge all that night, and that on the morowe the shirt 
shuld be gone and the child shuld recover health : but the shirt 
was not gone, as she said. And this deponent paid to Pereson 
wyfe Sd. for hir paynes, otherwais she knoweth not whether 
she is a wytche or not. 

Robert Thompson, vicar of Benton, aged 52 years. 

This examinate put in a bill of indictamente agaynst Jenkyn 
Pereson and William Pereson his son for a mayr that was 
stowen frome hym, but aftirward the matter was stayed, he can 
not tell how. 

Dicit that he herd one wedo Archer doughter, called Eliza- 
bethe Gibson, saye that Jenkyn Pereson wyfe heled hir mother, 
who was taken with the farye, and gave hir 6^. for hir paynes, 
and that the said Jenkyn Pereson wyfe toke 3^. of Edmond 
Thompson for a like matter. 



CXXXV. George Barraw contra Anthony Ladley, 

IN CAUSA DIFFAMATIONIS. [C. f. 51.] 

Thomas Haswell, of Chester, in Co. Durham, blacksmith, 
aged 30 years. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 101 

He saith that he this examinat being in the cathedral church 

of Durham, upon Setter last was a sennett, the said Laddley 

was then walkinge in the said church, and this deponent cam 

to hym and asked hym what busynes he had ther ; and Laddlay 

answard that the said Barro suityd hym for a sklander : and this 

examinate asked further the said Antony whither that he was a 

fawtor or no ; and he said that he hard a wyff caull hym theiff, 

before many witnesses, and therupon he spoke the same to the 

occupacion,* and haith ben in treble bothe ther and now lik to 

be here, for the same matter. 

+ Signum dicti THOMiE. 

William Fisher, of Durham, blaksmith, aged 18 years. 

He saith that, a litle byfore Martlemas last past, upon a 
Satterday, what other certain day he cannot depose, this ex- 
aminate, George Borrow, and many other of that occupacion, 
sellingther wair atS^ Nicoles churche stile, in the citie of Dur- 
ham, the said Barro placing hym self next Henry Farroies, 
moche higher then his rome was, the said Laddley and William 
Foster, being stewers f of that occupacion, cam to the said 
Barroo and comandyd hym to stand byneith in his own rowm, 
and he said he wold nott. And, after many words bitwixt them 
ther, the said Laddly cauld the said Barro '' fals knave,^^ and 
said that he shuld cause hym stand beneith. And the said 
Barro also cauld the said Anthony '' fals knave,^' and, being 
lyke to feight, this examinate and other went betwixt them, 
and moved the said Laddley to goo home. 

+ Signum dicti Willielmi. 

Henrt Rowell, apprentice of John Thompson, blak- 
smith, aged 18 years. 

He saith that, bytwixt Lammes and Martlemas last past, the 
said Barro, upon a Setterday, selling his wair at S^ Nicoles 
church styll, he was higher by moch then his rome was, and 
the said Laddley, ther stewerd, came to him, and commandyd 
hym, in my Lord of Durham name, to kepe his rome emongest 
his younger breithren, and he wold not, and cauld the said 
Anthony then '^ a busy knave,*' and then Antony cauld the said 

• The trade or company to which they belonged. + Steward*. 



102 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER * 

Barro ^' a bysye knave." — This examinate and the said Fisher 
was sellinge wair ther of his father, and this examinate of his 
master. + 



CXXXVI. Testes pboducti ex parte Johannis Catche- 

SID super EXCEPTIONIBUS SUtS ADVERSUS TESTES PER 

Robertum Blenkinsop exhibitos. [C. f. 56.] 

George Grondye, of Hedley near Lamesley, husbandman, 
aged 60 years. 

He saith that, as he remembrith, the Sonday next after 
Trinitie Sonday last past, which was the 4ay that one John 
Fletcher of Chester maid a hopping,* this examinate came to 
Chester church : at what tyme the said Catchesyd came to this 
deponent, and thei tow satt in a stall togither ther, and that 
tyme this deponent neither sawe Blenkensop boye nor knoweth 
hym nott, nor any missorder of the said Catchesyd, at that 
tyme. + 

CXXXVII. Testes producti ex parte ELizABETHiE Fris- 

SELL, SINGLEWOMAN, CONTRA HeNRICUM SmITH, IN CAUSA 

MATRIMONIALI. [C. f. 70.] 

Henry Sheill, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, blacksmith, aged 
50 years. 

He saith that, about the time libellat, he, this examinate, 
being and working about the Commissaryes court, the said 
Henry and Elizabethe was brought before the said Commissary 
to be corrected for their incontinent living. And when their 
penance was enjoned to them thei agreed betwen themselves to 
mary, and so came into the M^ Vicar of Newcastle's house, in 
the parlour, and there in the presence of Christopher Smithe 
and John Smithe, Henrie Smithe^s brother, Edward Garbut, 
Georg Grey, prest, John Walles, the somnour,t and clerk of S* 
John's churche, after talke of agreiment the said Henry and 

* A merry meeting accompanied with dancing, 
f Summoner, an officer of the Ecclesiastical Court. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCBBDINOS. 103 

Elizabeth wer contented ther in their presences to be handfested^ 
which was done by Thomas Kingston, the said Henry Smith 
saying after Thomas Kingston, ** Here I, Henry Smith, take you, 
Elizabeth Frisell, to my wedded wyfe, &c. and thereto I plight 
the my trowth,^' and " I, Elizabeth Frisell, take you^ Henry 
Smith, to my wedded husband, &c. and thereunto I plight the 
my trowth,'* drawing handes and drinking either to other. And 
the above named Walles, spiyng Henry Smith to loke down, 
said to him, ** Whi lokest thou down ? If thou meane not to 
do it in dede, but does to avoid the penance, it is not well/' 
Wherunto Henry Smith answered that he ment truly, as he after- 
ward spake. Examined whi thei staled so long from marying, 
he saith that at the time of ther hanfesteng Henry Smith was 
in prentiship a yeir after, and that he taketh to be the cause of 
their staying. 

Signum + Henrici Sheile. 

CXXXVIII. Janet Pentland adv. David Pentland. 

[C. f. 76.] 

Janet Whip, wife of Matthew Whip, of Newcastle, aged 
40 yrs. 

She saith th|it, the night byfor John Pentland was bured, 
which was father of both parties, the said David cauld Thomas 
Pentland, his brother, and the said Janett, his suster, into the 
entry, after whom this examinate and her husband went as 
frends ; in whose presenc David said unto his suster Jane after 
this sort, " Janette, will ye heir the third part of our father's 
buriall, and ye shall have the third part of his moveable goods? '* 
When she answered and said that she wold doo with good will. 
And when they had talk of ringing the bells for their fayther, 
David said then to hir, " What yf your husband be not content 
that ye beir the S^ part?'' *'Mary,'' sath she, *' when ye dely- 
ver the third part, ye shall then stay as moch in your own 
hand."' And she well remembreth that afterward the said Da- 
vid said in her husband workhouses, how so ever his brother 
Thomas wold use the said Janet, for and concerning the third 
of ther father goods, he wold doo the lyk. + 



104 DBP08ITION8 AND OTHER 

CXXXIX. Janbt Steillino con. Margaret Bulm an. 

[C. 79] 

AoNES Whbitley, wife of Robert Wheitley, of Segefield, 
aged 33 years. 

As this examinate was ccnnmyng forth with her skeill she 
hard BuUman's wyflFe caul Styllynge " noughtie pak ;'^ who 
answered^ " What nowtynes know you by me ? I am neyther 
goossteler nor steg* steiler, I would you knew ytt.'' And then 
BuUman's wyff said ^^ What, noughty hoore, caull thou me goose 
steiler ?'* " Nay, mayry, I know thee for no such'^ saithStillinge 
wyffe, " but I thank you for your good reporte, whills you and 
I talk further.'* 



CXL. EXAMINACIO GARDIi^NORUM ECCLESIiE PAROCHIALIS 

DE Ganforde, super materiam et articulos ex of- 
ficio PROPosiTos adversus Thomam Betson et Johan- 

NEM TOWLER. [C. f. 83.] 

CuTHBERT Potter, of Lankton, husbandman, aged 50 years. 

He saith that the said Betson and Towler dyd use ther bo- 
dyly labour with ther beasts in harrawinge and «awinge upon a 
Sondaye, about Michaelmas last past, against the commande- 
ments of God and the lawes of holly churche. Examined upon 
what day of the moneth nescit deponere. Examined what 
maner of grain yt was that the said Betson and Towller dyd 
sawe, he saith wheit. Examined what tyme of the said (Son- 
daye) that they dyd harowe and sawe, he saith airly, bifore 
none, for this examinate sawe them bothe that day at the ser- 
vice in Gainfurth church, at the beginninge of the morning 
praier. Examined whether any moo of the said parish dyd so 
lykewise, or no, he saith none, to this examinate^s knowledg, 
saing that ther was yere enowgh, and that they might well 
eneugh have taried unto the Monday and Tewsday next after^ 
as this examinate and many other dyd. + 

* a gander. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 105 

Thomas Stoddbrt, of Headlham, yomau, alias husbandman, 
aged about 50 years. 

They neyded not so do but upon folish oversight^ for not 
only in Langton, but also in many other townes in that parish, 
many had plewed upon the Setterday next byfore besyd those 
2y and sufferde the sawinge to the weke after, for ther was tyme 
and yere eneugh, saing he thinks yt was not godly doon of 
them. + 



cxli. a confession or declaration to be maid by 
Thomas Betson and John Towler, in the parishe 
Church of Gaynepurth. [Swift's Book, 167.] 

Derely beloved, Althoughe it be one of the chefest of G odd's 
comanndements when he saythe thus, " Remember that thowe 
kepe holy the Saboth daie ; sex dale shall thou labor, and doe all 
that thou haist to doe ; but the seventh daie is the Saboth, or 
ristinge daie, of the Lorde thy God ; in it thou shalt doe no 
maner of worke, thou and thy son, thy doughter, thy man 
servant and thy maide servant, thy cattell and thy stranugers 
that is within thy gaits; for in sex dayes the Lorde maid 
heaven and earthe, the sea and all that in them is, and rested 
the seventh daie ; wherefore the Lorde blessed the seventh 
daie and hallowed it,'' yet we, Thomas B. and J. T., forgettinge 
our obediente dewties to the lawe of God aforesaid, and to the 
Quene's Majestie's ecclesiasticall lawes of this realme, have of 
laite prophaned, unhalowed, and, as muche as in us lyeth, dis- 
honered Godd's holly saboth daie, which daie is appointed 
emongest all Christian men to prayse God for his benefites, to 
aske those things that be nedefull at Godd's hands, and to doe 
other works acceptable in Godd's sight, gyvinge our selves to 
worke unlawfuU, servile, and bodyly labors of sawinge, harow- 
inge, without any urgent necessytye, in which doings as we 
have offended the lawes of God and the Queue, to our re- 
prooche and your evill example, so we humbly here before you 
all acknowledge our selves to be sory for that and all our mis- 
deds and offences, besechinge God to tume this our punyshe- 



106 DBP08ITI0NS AND OTHBR 

ment as well to our amendment as your good example. In 
testimony wherof we pray you all to lifte up your harts and 
voices with us to our Heavenly Father, in the name of his 
deare son Jesus Crist, saynge, ' Our Father, which art in 
heaven,^ '^ &c. 



CXLII. Testes producti ex paittb gabdianorum ecclb- 

81M PAROCHIALIS DE HOUOHTON. A PEW CAUSE. 

[C. f. 85.] 

William Smithe, of West Rainton, husbandman, aged 70 
years. 

He saith that article (2) is trewe, for sucl^ auncient custome 
they have that no parishioner in that parish can buyld any stall 
in the church of Houghton, or take any away, without the 
licenc and consent of the 24 and the churchwardeons of the said 
parish. And yf any man goo furth of the said parish, but half 
a yere, to dwell, the churchwardons may lett his stall to any 
man that will take yt. And yf that same man come again into 
the said parish to dwell he shall paye his fyne of another stall, 
yf his owne be latten. And, lykewise, when any parishioner 
dieth, that haith a stall, the man or woman that maries again 
shal pay a fyne for the stall that dead man or woman had, or 
for another stall, yf yt be letten, the proffett wherof gooth to 
the reparacion of the said church. 

CXLIII. ThJB PERSONAL ANSWER OF ChARLES ShAWE TO 
THE LIBEL OF BaRTRAM MyTFORD. [C. f. 96.] 

He saith that, about Wytsonday last, Bartram Mytford and 
this examinate, being at certain words about a wheill, he this 
deponent went over Elvett bridge, talking thereof with Henry 
Hirst, sainge that the said Bartram was a covetous snowge, and 
such as he aught by God^s worde to be wedyd out of the com- 
mon welth ; saing further that ther was none of his the said 
Bartram^s servands but att ther way gayt he was about to 
make them theives ; whereupon one Isabell Hunter, the said 



ECCLBSIABTICAL PROCBEDINQS. 107 

Bartram^s servant, followed this examinate, and annsweringe 
hym that she wold tell hir M^^ what she had harde him then 
speake^ be the said Charlls said to hyr '* Gett the hoome, hoore, 
and tell thy M"^ what I have said/^ + 



CXLIV. A CONFESSION TO BE MADE BY ChARLES ShAWE^ 
FOR SLANDERING Bar. MiTFORTH^ IN S^ NiCOLES ChUBCH 
IN LTNEN APPARELL, AFTER THB READING OF THE III. 

CHAPTER OF S* James^ Epistle. [Swift^s Book, f. 174.] 

Beloved neighbours^ I am now comen hither to shewe my 
self sory for slannderinge one Bartram Midforde^ namely in 
that I called him openly " beggerly harlot and cutthrote/' 
sainge that he was ^' a covitous snowge, and such as he by 
Godd's worde aught to be weded out of the Coomenwelthe.*' 
I acknowledge that thus to slannder my Christian brother is an 
heynouse oflFence, first towardes God, who haithe straightly for- 
bydden it in his holy lawes, accomptinge it to be a kynde of 
murderinge my neighbour and threatninge to punyshe it with 
hell fire and the losse of the kyngdome of heaven. Also the 
Quene^s lawes, against which I have stubbornely stande, doeth 
grevously punyshe all slannderers, backbiters and sowers of 
discorde, debate, hatred and disquietnes, to the shame of the 
ofienders and feare of others. Agayne, my unruly tonge, if it 
were not punished, it wolde not onely set mo of yow on fire, 
but also it wolde bolden others to doe the like. Wherefore, as 
I am now called backe frome myne inordinate doinges by this 
correction, with my cost and shame, so I beseche yow all to be 
witnesses with me that I am sory frome the verrey bottome of 
my harte for this and my other like offences against God, the 
Quene^s Majestie, and the said Bartram Mydforde ; promysinge 
before God, and you here present, that I fully intende to 
amende my outeragious tonge and wilfuU behaviour, as maye 
please Almightie God, satisfye the Queue's lawes, and toume 
to yur good example and myne owne sowle^s health ; for the 
obteyninge and performinge thereof I humbly beseche yow all, 
with me and for me, to pray unto God as our Saviour Jesus 



108 DBP08ITION8 AND OTHER 

Christ him self beinge here on earth taught us^ sainge ^' Our 
Father which art in heaven*, hallowed be thy name/' etc. 



[Letter from Mr. Chancellor Swift to the Curate of 

St. Nicholas.] 

Sir William, When you have admonished the people out 
of the pulpet, afiter the Gospell, that Charles Shawe is ther 
punished for slanndering Bartram Mitford, then rede ther the 
third Chapter of Saint James Epistle, and, that done, let 
Charles Shawe, being ther in lynnen apparell, like a penitent 
person, say the confession above writen after you, you being 
in the pulpit and he kneling benethe the quear dore, audiblye, 
with the Lorde's praier, to be then and ther said by him with 
all the people knelinge, and that to ask Bartram Mitford for- 
gevenes openly ther and kneling. All which thinges being done 
you shall certefy me againe in writing. 3 March 1570. Certify 
the next Court daie, Rob. Swift. 

Certificate. In dorso knowen to your wurshype 

that Charells Shawe haithe donn his pennans accorden . . . 
wurshyppe commandement in our parish's churche, barfett and 
baredded . . . upon his knees, upon Ester daye last, and ther 
dyd aske Bartrame Midforthe forgevenes, in the fayse of all 
the congregation ther present. Wryting by me. William 
Hedlame, curett of S^ Nychelas in Durhame. 



CXLV. Thomas Robson ag* Ralph Wilson. [C. 125.] 

Agnes Blenkinsop, of Durham, single woman, maid ser- 
vannt of Hugh Frennde, aged about 22 years. 

At that tyme articulate she, this examinate, was the said 
Thomas servannt, and upon a hollyday at night she, this depo- 
nent, was sittinge at hir said M^ doore with Isabell his daughter, 
and the said Raffe Wilson was goinge thereby in the streyt. 



ECCLESIASTICAL. PROCEEDINGS. 109 

and by comme one Janett Percivall, a young woman, and said 
to the aforesaid Isabell, " Yonder goith your good man,'* 
meaninge the said Raffe. And Isabell annswered, ^^ Our good is 
to well wonne to comme emongest thers/' Which wordes the 
said Raiff hard and said, ^^ Thou giglott, thou knowest best 
whither your goods be well woon or noo/' And the said Isabell 
annswerde and said, " Aither you or some of yours so reports." 
And then spoke the said Raiffe and said, ^^ I will thou know 
that yf I had stolne 2 yawdes,* as thi father dyd, I wold nott 
have thought that good well woon/' And further, &c. 

Signum + dictse Agnetis. 

John Tompson, of Gilligatt in Durham, weiver, aged SO 
years. 

He saith that he knew never any thinge to Thomas Robson 
but an honest man, but that he was in a frail blonder about 2 
meirs that he toke in steid of his owne, when he drove horse in 
the south contree. 

He saith that, as he one evening stand at Robson doore^ with 
his dowghter and his maid, and the maid sainge to his daughter 
upon Wilson, " Yonder was some tyme one of your lovers/' 
And his dowghter sayd " Nay, his mother, Wilson's wyffe said 
that our evill gotten good shulde not comme emongst their 
well gotten good," to the which Raiff annswered that " yf the 
father had been attached when he toke 2 other men's yards in- 
steid of his owne, thou wold not have bein so stowtt." 

+ Signum Johannis Tompson. 

George Colson, of Gilligait, tayler, aged 17- 

He saith, that in the fore ende of harvest Isabell Robson was 
fettinge a cruse of drinke out of the aile house, and one of 
Hudspeith sones said to hir that she wold be a pretty roper's 
wyfe. And she annswered and said that she dyd not passe t yf 
all ropers wer hanged ; and the said Raiff, being in his father's 
loft, boune to bed, hering thois words, praied that better might 
behapp then hanginge, and said, *^ Yf they had been hanged 
that toke one yawd in wethe of ther owen, they had not bein 
syttinge were they were syttinge at that tyme." Examined 

* Horses. t Care. 



110 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHRR 

whither Willson named the said Robson at that tyme^ or at any 
Other, to be a yawd steiller, ye or no, respondit negative. 

+ Signum Georgii Colson. 

Richard Carther, of the same, sheirman, aged about 40 
years. 

This examinate hard thois words. John Tompson, alias 
Percivall, is this examinate's mawggh (brother in lawe). 



CXLVI. Testes producti ex officio ad promotionem 
Georgii Cuthbert, unius promotoris in adjuvamen 
DiCTi officii adversus Brianum Headlham. 

[C. f. 126, b.] 

Lancelot Butiman, of Sedgefield, husbandman, aged 54 
years. 

^He, this examinate, was by at the Evenyng Praier when the 
church wardens of Sedgefield cam to hym and demandyd 12d. 
of the said Bryan, bycause he hadd his capp on in servic tyme, 
and he, the said Brian, refused to pay the I2d^ and maid his 
skewse that he had an evill head. 

He remembrith that the said Brian receyved at Easter last, 
and about the feaste of Candlemas, when the parishe was com- 
mandyd. 

He hard not Brian Headlam threten the said Th. Watkin, 
or any of the church wardens, but he said that, yf the law 
wold serve hym, he wold seke remydie by lawe against the said 
Watkyn. 

The curat answered thus, " Thou saist lyke a knave.'* 

Thomas Watkin, of the same, husbandman, aged 54 years. 

He and the said Bryan maried 2 susters. 

He saith that he kept his cap on upon one Sonday at the 
Morning Prair, wherfore this examinate and Robert Laiton de- 
mandyd I2d. of hym. And one other tyme, at the Evening 
Prair, and the third tyme, he misused the curat, and spoke to 
hym at such tyme as the said curat was examininge or speaking 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. Ill 

to a penitent. And ther upon this examinate and his fellowes 
demandyd Ss, of the said Bryan^ according to their present- 
ment, which refused to pay yt unless he were compelled by 
order of lawe. 

He saith that this last yere he receyved twise, and byfor that 
yere neither he or any parishioner then receyved but once. 

He saith that about Christemas last past the said Brian said 
to this examinate^ " I promes you, yf the lawe will serve me, I 
shall make you spend 40s/' Examined of the cause wherfor 
he saith, bycause he this examinate presentyd the said Brian 
to the judg, M' Swyft, in the consistory 'of Durham — the pre- 
sentment is trewe and all the contents therein. 

Robert Smith, of Foxton, husbandman, aged 50 years. 

He saith that he was in the church of Sedgefeild, in the tyme of 
servic, when the said Bryan dyd disquiet M' Horsfall ther curat 
with speaking to hym at that tyme, viz. the said curat thought the 
2 penitents satt to hy up in the church, and spoke to them, and 
speciall to one of them, to sett lower, and at last she so dyd, 
and ther stood a yong man neir hir whom the said curat asked 
whither that she was his wench or no, and the young man gave 
no answer, but Bryan said then to him, the said curat, ^* She 
may be youres, yf ye will '/' and one other tyme this examinate 
dyd se the said Bryan have on his cap at the tyme of the 
Morning Praier, and further, &c. 



CXLVII. Extracts from the Libel against Brian Hed- 
LAM OF Sedgefield. [Swift's Book, 108.] 

That you, Brian Hedlam, being in the parish church of Seg- 
feld, the 17 day of November last, 1568, at the Morning Praier, 
at the saing of the generall cohfession and repeting of the 
Lorde's praier, beleffe, and ten commandments, letane, and other 
suflFragies ; at which time, by the Quene^s lawes, every Christen 
man and woman ought orderly and reverently to put of his cap 
and knele upon his knees, and use other reverent behaviour, 
you, Brian Hedlam, not having God before your eies, but stirred 



112 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

up with devilish contempt and irreverence, did, the day and 
time aforesaid, sit with his cap on his head, and being thereof 
lawfully admonished, refused contemtuouslie to reforme these 
defaultes, or to pay 12 d. to the churchwardens for the poore 
nian^s boxe then demannded, and disturbed the church with 
talking. — 



CXLVIII. Margaret Herreson in the stocks. [C. 132.] 

George Skott, of Chester-in-the-street, yoman, aged 50 
years. 

He saith that, about the tyme articulate, this examinate and 
one Peirson was the connstables in Chester, and that one 
Agnes Fletcher, the said John Fletcher wyffe, came to this 
deponent and his fellow and shewed them that the said 
Mai^ret Herreson had stolene money out of hir sonne Roland 
chist, and thereupon required this said examinate and his fellow 
to sett thir the said Margaret, and one Isabell Bume, in the 
stoks ; and so they, this examinate and his fellow, dyd, at her 
ernest mocion. At what tyme the said Fletcher was not in the 
towne; and at his home commyng they the said cunstables 
cauld of hym and asked hym whither he wold follow hir as the 
Queue's fellon or no, and he said yee. And thereupon she the 
said Margaret was kept in the stoks all that night ; saing all 
the contents of that article is trewe, for the IMiff was chardged 
with her by this examinate and his fellowes, which caried hir 
to M"" Hedworth, a justic of peace. 

John Peirson, of the same^ tailyer, aged 30 years. 

He haith known her to have been of honest name and fame 
this 10 yeres or more. He was one of the cunstables, and 
talked with John Fletcher of that matter, and hard and saw all 
that was doon ; saing that she swoned dyvers tymes, and had 
died but for this examinate. He knoweth that Bowmaker's 
wyffe of the Sheills had hierd the said Margarett, and gyven 
hir a penney in erlls,* and yett, after, refused hir, upon that 
fame. 

* Earnest money. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 113 

CXLIX. DooN V. Stamper. Defamation. [C. f. 136.] 

Christopher Pawson, of Blackheddon^ in co. Northumb. 
gent, aged 34 years. 

He saith that, albeyt that he knoweth the moste parte of the 
personages of the wytnes, yet he knoweth not what they have 
deposed. 

He saith that George Chikin is not a man of good name and 
fame emongest his neighbours : for he was put frome his M*^ 
M' Welton, for steilinge and withdrawinge of his said M>^'« 
come. And this examinate^ being chardged with the said 
Chikinge frome Mr CoUingwood, the Sherrif of Northumber- 
land, dyd arrest hym, the said Chikin, and brought him to 
Alnewicke to the shirriff, byfore whomme the said Chikinge was 
^ boundon to aunswer, accordinge to the Quene^s lawes, who 
I beinge in this examinate^s kepinge confessed that he had un- 
j jusdye taken thre pecks of corne of the said M' Welton, and 
I also that he had boundon certain sheip in the place articulate, 
, affirming that they were his owne, although the voice of the 
contree is to the contrarye, as this deponent, beinge baliff ther, 
herith. 
i George Homble, of Blackheddon, husbandman, aged about 

40 years. 
> He saith that Georg Chiking is counted for a bruckle * man, 

and haith bein in combre f for taking of other mens goods. 



CL. The personal answer of Thomas Wright, Clerk, 
to Articles against him. [C. f. 139.] 

Thomas Wright, Vicar of the parish Church of Seham, 
aged 79 years. 

He saith that at the tyme articulate he, this examinate, being 
in the Consistory of Durham, swore once by God, and an other 
tyme by Sanct John. 

He saith that yt ys trewe that this examinate is cauld to the 

* Brittle, unsafe. f Trouble. 

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114 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

function and office of preist, and he trustith gyvith good exam- 
ple to all his parishioners, denying that he is any common 
swerer or blasphemer. Thomas Wright. 



CLI. The personall aunswers of Agnes Priorman to 

THE LIBEL OF ChRISTOFER GrEINBURIE. [C. f. 142.] 

Agnes Priorman of Dinsdaill^ singlewoman, aged 20 years. 

She saith that Christofer Greinburye, being servant to Mr. 
Robert Place, resortyd to this examinate^s compeny in hir 
uncle^s house, cauld S*^ Roland Gierke, and sometyme going to 
church and markett, which Greinbury moved this examinate 
in the way of mariadge, but she never consentyd thereunto : 
and that was about 2 yers agoo and never sync. 

She saith that she never receyved gyfft of hym self, but the 
said Christofer sent hir a pair of gloves, which this examinate 
refused to take, and a cristall stone and a sylver ring of 4flf. price, 
(which) she this examinate have, and doo shewe the same in this 
hir examinacion, which his brethren Brian and John delyvered 
to this deponent. + Signum dictse Agnetis. 



CLII. The personal answers of Ralph Hedworth, 

GENT. [C. f. 142.] 

He saith that he, this examinate, haith bein ever willing, and 
is, to pay the debts and legaces articulate, and upon this exa- 
minate's bihalf all the legacys is contentyd and paid, save only 
2 rialls to Mr. Hedworth of Harradon, which he never de- 
mandyd, and Ss. 4id. to one Janet Collingwood, which she 
refused to recefe the same within . . . dayes, and, as for debts, 
non ys demandyd or owinge. Mary, this examinate's children 
ar not paid their legacys of their uncle John Hedworth bihalf, 
nor Thomas, Robert, Anthony Hedworth, or any ther children 
haith not receyved any of ther legaces gyven by the testator's 
will, upon the said Johne's byhalfe. 

He belivithe that, for his part, he is not forsworn, for 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCBEDINOS. 115 

although hard byfore his father death he haith sein sylver 
spones to the nombre of 17f a silver belt, and a pair of correll 
beids with silver gawdies, and the lease of Brenkbome house^ 
the lease of the coole pytts, unvalewed, all which is not praised 
nor put in the inventary. And, as he supposyth, the spones, 
the belte, and beids ar in the hand of the said John Heidworth, 
without any profecte or commoditie to this examinate. A.nd, 
as for the said leases, they were nott valewed in the inventary, 
bycause this examinate thought yt had not bein the use to valew 
or praise any leases. Raff Hedworth. 

Anthony Hedworth of Newcastle upon Tyne, merchant, 
aged 48 years. 

He saith he haith paid debts and legaces, as fer as any man 
haith demaundyd of hym, this examinate; notwithstandyng 
John Hedworth, being often tymes requierd, haith hitherto 
denied to pay his porcion to this examinate of 20 nobles, be- 
quithed to this examinate in his said father's will. 

He saith that this examinate, with his brethren, exhibityd a 
trew inventary of all such goods as John Hedworth, this exa- 
minate's brother, browght byfore them; howbeid that he 
knoweth, and understandith, that ther was certain jowells of 
silver and gold in a faschain poke, which was neither prased or 
{Hit in the invente, but not by this examinate^s default. 

Per me, Antony Hedworth. 

Robert Hedworth, of Rytonwoodsyd, gen., aged 40 years 
and more. 

Mary, his owne legacy, to the valey of 4 nobles, that his 
brother John Hedworth shuld paye, ys not yeit paid — this ex- 
aminate's children ar nott paide — neither Anthony Hedworth 
or Thomas Hedworth, this examinate's bretherin. 

Signum -f- Robert Hedworth. 

Tho. Hedworth, of Blackbome Mylne, about 40 years. 
His owne legacye of 5 markes and his dowghter legaces 10«. 
is not paid. Thomas Hedworth. 



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116 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 



CLIII. The personal answer of Humphrey Hopper. 

[C. f. 163.] 

Umphry H0PPER9 of Edyedsbridge in the Co. of Northumb., 
aged 54 years. 

He saith that he was both in the church and churchyarde of 
Muggleswike. 

He saith that he^ this examinate, spoke no unseeming or un- 
godly words in the church of Muglesworth^ as is articulate. 
Mary, in the church yard ther he had some communicacion 
with one Roland Herrison^ which he will declare in this his 
examinacion. 

He saith he laid no hand of his dagger^ to his wytton.* 

He saith that the said Sir Thomas, articulate, came to this 
examinate, then beinge out of the church yarde^ and dyd re- 
buke this examinate for making any busynes in that parish, 
being an out man ; to whom this deponent said^ ^' Thou harlott 
preist, peiste thou me ? I will be here when I lyst^ in spite of 
thy teithe/^ sainge that he cauld hym not ^^ falsh/* 

Signum + Umphridi Hopper. 



CLIV. The personal answer op William Brioham, 

vicar op Ovingham. [C. f. 168.] 

He saith that he belyvith that by the lawe no parson^ vicar, 
or curat, ought to minister any sacraments, rites, or ceremonies, 
to any person but thoise of his owne parishe. 

He saith that, on Tewsday in Easter hoUidaies last past, be- 
twene 7 and 8th of the cloke, byfore the morning praier, in the 
presence of dyvers persons, to the noumbre of 20 persons, 
parte therof of his owne parish of Ovingham and the other 
strangers, he, this examinate, solempnised mariadg by twene 
Thomas Baxter, of the parish of St. Nicholes in Newcastell, on 

• Witting, knowledge. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 117 

the one parte, and Kathering Marshall^ of the parish of St. 
Johne^s in Newcastell, wedo^ on the other parte, without any 
licens, nor asked aither in ther owne parish churches, or ther 
att Ovingham, at all, to his, this examinate's, knowliedg. 

By me, Wyllyam Bryqham. 



CLV. A CONFESSION TO BE MADE BY AlLICE SwAN, WIFE 

OF Robert Swan, in Saint Nicoles Churche at 
Newcastle, for turninge the ridle and sheares, 
with certen others, after the minister upon son- 

DAY AFTER THE SERMON. [Swift's Book, 167 b.] 

Dearly beloved Christen people. As Almighty God is the 
only creatour of all thinges in heaven and earth, so it is reveled 
to us in his holy worde to be his pleasure and will that all his 
creatures shold depend upon him, and sek for no helpe or suc- 
cour but only in him, our Heavenly Father ; and to do other- 
wise is nothinge els but to mak another God in our own devises 
to our selves, and to committ the horrible cry me of Idolatrie 
and false worshipp, forbidden in the first commandement of 
Almightie God. Nowe, so it is, good people, that I, Allice 
Swan, by the meanes and procurement of Margaret Lawson, 
Anne Hedworth, Elizabeth Kindleside, Agnes Rikerbye, Anne 
Bewike, and Jerrerd Robison, not having the feare of God 
before myne eyes, but following the persuasion of the devell, 
who moveth me and all mankind to a defection from God our 
Creator, have, of a filthie lucre and under colour of a singuler 
and secret knowledge of lost thinges, used by the space of 
certen yeres to cast or tourne the riddle and sheares, and albeit 
it seame to some to be but a trifling matter, yet seing it is a 
kinde of a divination or charming, expressedly forbidden by 
Gode's lawes and the Quene^s Majestic, and cannot be done 
without a defection and mistrust to God and some confidence 
*to the devell, wherefore I am comen here this day, at the ap- 
pointement of the Quene's Majestie's Commissioners, humbly 
to acknowledge and confesse ray forsaid oflFence before you all, 
whom among other Christians I have by my example cheffly 



118 DBP08ITION8 AND OTHBR 

offended and given occasion lease to reverence the lawes of Grod 
and this realme ; and of my sorrowfull repentance in this be- 
halfe, I beseche you all to be my witnesses ; and that I may be 
forgeven at your handes, and namely at the handes of Al- 
mightie God, I require you here humbly upon my knees to pray 
with me and for me, as our Saviour Jesus Christ commandeth 
us, saying, '^ Our Father which art in heaven,'' &c. 



CLVI. Libel against the Churchwardbns of Sbdgb- 

PIBLD FOB RBMOVINO THE CoMMUNION TaBLE. 1567* 

[Swiff s Book, 52 b.] 

Theis articles foUowinge and the contents of the same, we, 
James by the grace, &c., by Thomas K[ing], notarye publique, 
of our mere ofBce necessarie promotour in that byhalfe assigned, 
against Jo. H., Jo.B., Rob. D. and S. W., T.M. and every of them, 
in lawe jointelie, severallie and ar^® doth objecte and propound 
and saye in manner and forme followinge : — 

1 . Imprimis, ponit et articulatur pars dicti Thomee K., that 
the Reverende father in God, &c,, by the space of one, two, 
three, &c. yeres, and more, last past, baith bene, and yet is, the 
Bushopp and Ordinarie of the sea and dioces commonly called 
the Busshopridge of Durham, and that Mr, R[obert] S[wifte], 
batchelor, &c. by the space aforesaid is and haithe bene, vicar, 
&c. of the said Reverend father, lawfullye deputed. And all 
the premisses are true, and in the cittie and all the dioces of 
Durham. Et ponit et articulatur conjunctim et divisim de quo- 
libet. 

2. Item ponit et articulatur, that, by the Acte of Parliament 
and other lawes estabUshed within this Realme of England, 
everye Busshop or other Ordinarye (for the tyme beinge) maye, 
at his discretion, sett or place the table for the Hollie Com- 
munion in the chancell or the bodie of every churche. And 
also, by the lawes aforesaid, may poynt and determine where, 
or in what place, Morneinge and Eveninge Praier may most 
convenientlie be said, songe or done, for the settinge fourth of 
God's service and edifieinge of the people. Et ponit, &c. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 119 

3. Item ponit^ &c., that the Busshopp^ &c., or his Ordinaiie, 
accordinge to the lawes aforesaid, in the monethes of Auguste, 
kc, in the yere of our Lord God 1562, &c., or one of them, 
did appoynte that the Lord's table should stand in the bodie 
of the churche ; and also that Common Prayer should be there 
said and done in all places within the dioces of Durham. Et 
ponit, &c. 

4. Item ponit, &c., that R[obert] S[wifte], Ordinarie to the 
said Reverend Father, bushop of Duresme, in the monethes of 
September, &c. of this present yere, 1567, or one of them, 
accordinge to the lawes aforesaid, being personnallie present in 
the parishe churche of Seg [field] within the dioces aforesaid, 
did cause and appointe the Communion Table and certeyn 
formes or deskes to be placed in the bodie of the church afore- 
said, in suche order shnd comelienes as semed unto him most 
convenyent for the ministracion of Sacrements and sainge of 
Common Praier. Et ponit, &c. 

5. Item ponit, &c., that, on Mondaie being the 7th daie of 
Novembre instant, the said Jo. H., Jo. B. &c., not haveinge 
God before there eyes, nor the preheminence of the jurisdiction 
Episcopall, did into the churche aforesaid enter, and, after 
dyverse contemptuouse wordes then and there by them spoken, 
being also counselled to the contrarye, did forceableye, con- 
temptuouslie and rashelie take up and remove the said table, 
formes, or desks, ausu temerario et sacrilego jurisdictionem 
Episcopalem Dunelmensem invadentes, [in] grave animae suae 
periculum, et aliorum Christi fidelium exemplum pemiciosum. 
Et ponit, &c. 

6. Item ponit, &c., namelie against Jo. H., aforesaid, that he, 
the said Jo. H., verie contemptuouslie and rebelliouslie in the 
said churche, before dyvers honest persones, once, twyse, or 
oftner, said openlye that he wold remove the said table and 
formes, which the said Ordinarye had placed, addinge further 
that he was a hinderer and no furtherer of God*s service. Et 

ponit, &c. 

7. Item ponit, &c., that whosoever dothe usurpe, invaid, or 
contempe the jurisdiction Episcopall of any Bushop, or his 
Ordinarye, is by the lawe (ipso facto) excommunicated, and so 



120 DBP08ITION8 AND OTHBR 

oughte to be declared and reputed amongest all Christian men. 
Et ponit, &c« 

8. Item, &c. quod de et super prsemissis, &c. 

Unde facta fide etc. petit pars dicti T. K. promotoris ante 
dicti jus, etc. ministrari, prsefatosque Jo. H. Jo. B. etc. per 
vos, etc excommunicari ; ac pro tantie temeritatis suee excessu, 
etc. (vestro mediante arbitrio) ecdesiastice corrigi et puniri; 
necnon in expensis, etc. 



CLVII. Extracts from a Libel against Robert 
Wauoh and John Rawe. [Swift's Book, f. 109.] 

In Dei nomine. Amen. — a.d. 1567, mensis Apr. 27$ circa 
horam septimam preedicti sacrilegas manus in quendam Johan- 
nem Horsfall clericum injecturi, venerunt ad dictum Johannem in 
villam et rectoriam de Weshington, et maliciose preetendentes 
et allegantes, quod, ipso Johanne intercessore apud quendam 
magistrum Radulphum Lever, rectorem ibidem, facilius terras 
dominicales de Chester obtinerent, dictum Johannem ducebant 
per viam publicam ad unum miliare extra villam de Weshing- 
ton, in locum qui communiter vocatur le oxe close de Weshington, 
et cum venissent in densum ibidem locum, spinis et vepretibus 
obsitum, ^'eamus,^' inquit Johannes Rawe, ^^ extra viam in 
locum ilium densum, ne quis nos facile audiat." Quo cum 
venissent affatus est ilium Johannes Rawe, ut sequitur. '^ Nowe, 
we are glade, Horsfall, that we have got the hear : thou hast 
done our kinswoman Isabell Hinde a displeasure, and we will 
make thi skinne make her amendes ; and, by God's woundes, 
rather then thou use her thus thou shall beare me thy backfull 
of strockes ;'' holding and shaking his staffe at the said Horsfall. 
At which wordes one Robert Waughe came there also, grin- 
ninge and shakinge a lance staff, and sware ^' by Code's blode, 
that shalt thou do.'' And throwing his staff downe drewe 
out his dagger, stroke at him and cawght the said Horsfall 
by the right sholder, holding the dager at his hart, and said, 
^^ Yea, by God's harte, thou shall ether make her amendes, or 
this dagger shalbe thi deathe." Wherat the said Horsfall, 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCBBDING8. 121 

being a mased, said, ^^ S", I have no money /^ " Yes/^ quod 
Wawghe, " that hast thou, theffe, and let me se it/' Wherupon 
the said Horsfali purse being opened, ther was found in it 7% 
whiche the said Wawghe toke then and their, and, as Isabell 
Hind cofessed in this court, gave afterward to hir 5", and kept 
2> to himselve. . Which thing being done, thei caused the said 
Horsfali ther to sit down, and to make a bill of £S debt of his 
hand-writing sealed. And the 7' was ther tolde into Rawes 
handes, who then paid it to Wawghe, which also had the bill. 



CLVIIL The will of Sib Robbbt Brandling. [Act Book, 

f. 122.b.] 

The personal aqswer of Henbt Bbandlingb to positions 
and articles, &c., on the part of the sisters of Sir Robert 
Brandling, Knight, deceased. March, 1568-9. 

He, this examinate, was in the towne [of Newcastle] that 
same day, and was with S^ Roberte Brandlinge that same night 
that he departed. 

Sir Roberte Brandlinge haithe contynually kept house and 
dwelt in the house he died in the space of SO yeres and more 
next byfore his deathe. 

The will whiche this respondent and W. Brandling did ex- 
hibite in the consistorie courte of Duresme berithe the dait 
1 Jan. a. p. 1562. 

Upon Trinitie Sonday last at aftemoyne, be about 4 of the 
clock, tl^is examinate and lait S^ Robert Bradling were talkyng 
togithers in the said S' Roberte dwellinge house ; at which 
tyme the said S' Roberte axed this examinate what M^ Tankerd 
said, and when he wold comme over to hym, to conferre with 
hym towchinge the makinge of his will, (for this examinate, 
having otherwaies occasion to be at Yorke, was requested by 
the said S'^ Robert, his brother, to desyer M"" Tankerd to 
know when he might have hym at most leisure, either he to go 
to hym or he to come unto hym, for the makinge of his will,) 
and this examinate said that M^" Tankerd did saye he wold be 
glad to mete hym when he wold, for he thought that Sir Robert 



122 DBP08ITION8 AND OTHBB 

did diyve it to longe ; at which tyme also this examinate talked 
with M' Gerard Salvayn to the same effecte. After that this 
examinate^ then movyng his brother Sir Roberte to make his 
will^ for the staye of his frendes, and to be good to his susters, 
(for that childringe who were in debt, if he shuld geve them 
a peoe of money, the creditoars wold call for it, and they shuld 
be nothing the better) ; and therefor he moved hym to geive 
every of his susters one anuitie of £20 duringe there lyves, and 
so his name shulde florische after hym, as he had lyved 
worshipfoUy all his lyfe. And this examinate said further, that 
if it pleased God to put in the said Sir Robert mynde to put 
this examinate in trust, he wold not doubt to kepe all the 
chikens together, meninge his susters and frendes, in the same 
sorte as he did, notwithstandinge that the susters might have 
anuities as aforsaid. The said S' Roberte answered agayn thus, 
'^ What shuld I doo ? I have been bablinge and doinge thes 
4 or 5 yeres about it,'^ swering, by God's souU, ^^ I can not yet 
tell where to begyn, for we ar so many, and we ar all beggers, 
for there is not one emongst us hable to lyve upon hymself, 
saif George Denjfc, and Edward Tailour; for I thought my 
suster Katherine had been the best, and we thincke she is as 
bare as any of theim.'' — And then this examinate said agayn, 
*^ it was most fyt to regarde them, for they had born the best 
contenance of honestie ; and it were petie that they shuld 
lack in their age : but, S*" Robert, they saye you wold have 
maid your will if it were not for one thinge, which I wold speke 
but for angringe of you/* And he said agayn, " Speke on, 
herdely/' And then this examinate said, " They saye, in this 
town, if you had not so many bastardes you would have maid 
your will or now/' And he answered, " If I have any I am 
hable to fynd them/* At whiche word his preiste Sir Thomas 
Keye, syttinge by upon a fourme, did ryse and cam to the 
forsaid S' Roberte his m' and said, *^ S^, you bid me speak to 
mastres Brandlinge* to take one of the wenches called Jayn ;** 
and S^ Robert said, " Did you speke to hyr ? " And he said 
" Ye, and she saithe she shalbe welcom/* And then he willed 

* The wife of the deponent. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 12S 

S^* Thomas to put the wenche to hir. And at that tyme the 
forsaid S' Robert declared to this examinat of the unkinde 
doings of William Brandtinge,* who was sodenly upon a dis- 
pleasor departed into Flanders. And at thes wordes cam in 
M^ees Brandlinge aforsaid^ this examinate's wyfe, who required 
Sir Roberte to take good order byttwyxt hir husband^ this 
examinate, and the forsaid William, '^ for he that woll not geive 
his unkle a good daye (you beinge a lyre) woll moche lesse 
esteme hym when you ar deade.'^ And he took hir by the 
hand, sainge, ^^ I shall make hym, I warrand you, fayn to seke 
your husband all the daye on his lyfe/' And further &c. 

He saith that about 10 or 12 dayes or therabout, about 
Whitsondaye last, this examinate spacke to Mr. Tankerd and 
Mr. Salvayn, at the said S' Roberte appoyntmente, as he haithe 
said ; and on the Frydaye, the same daye that Si^ Robert dyed, 
this examinate, at the request of the said S' Robert, spake to 
Christofer Chaitour, upon the Sandhil, to comme to S'' Ro- 
bert dynner, althoughe he said hym naye byfore. And upon 
the same he cam to Christofer Chaitour, and he had promesed 
to dyne other where, and denyed to comme. except S^^ Robert 
hadsomme speciall matter. Wheruponthis examinate cam to hym 
agayn, and said that S' Robert wold have hym after dynner to 
have drawen a draught of his will, for after the Playesf he wold 
send for his consell and make it up. Wherupon the said 
Christopher Chaitour said he must ryde that night towardes 
Darlington, for markyn of horses there to be sold in the fair, 
by the Conselles commandmente ; and promesed to comme to 
hym agayn within a weke after. And further, &c. 

The forsaid S' Roberte Brandling said he thought that this 
examinate wold not lyve so longe tyme as he, nether that his 

* The person engaged in a drunken qu&Trel in a churchyard, No. LXXIII., and 
the jbther of an illegitimate child, No. LXXII., above. He waa now in Flanders, 
**upon a displeasure,^^ but he returned, and died in 1575, leaving a son, Robert 
Brandling, who was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1617. William was Sir 
Robert Brandling^s nephew, and eventually became his heir. See a pedigree of the 
fiunily, in which the various relations mentioned in these depositions are set forth, 
SUBTEES, vol. ii. p. 90. 

f The Miracle Plays or Mysteries performed by the different trade companies of 
Newcastle on Corpus Christi Day. V. Brand's Newcastle, II. p. 369. 



124 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

brother Thomas wold comme agayn to dwell in England ; and 
that his son William was verey untowardes. 

He saithe he^ this examinate^ Mr. Hodgeson (as he remem- 
brethe,) George Hely, George Dent, and William Ryddell, 
were then present at the openinge of the cownting house doore. 

Billes and obligacions of debts were locked in a cascat, in 
whiche were the keis of a stele chist where his money laye ; and 
the evidences of his landes and other wrytinges of weght were 
in a chist in the cowntinge house^ and the rest in a cownter in 
the hall. 

This examinate^ at diverse tymes byfore worshipfull and 
others of this towne of Newcastle, said that the writinge fownde 
in his cowntinge howse was not S' Robert's last and perfyte 
wyll ; for causses expressed by hym in his saings to the first 
article. 

To Additional Positions. The paper or will fownde 
in the said S' Roberte cownting house was in diverse places 
stricken out with a pen and enterlyned, and many blankes 
therein or void places, insomoche that byfore they went into the 
cowntinge house, Mr. Hogeson asked if any of them did knowe 
of any will of S' Roberte, and Mr. Helye said, " Alas ! I fere 
me that we shall fynd none but a sorte of notes in papire, but 
not the thinge we looke for ;*' and that S^ Roberte had many 
tymes required hym and Benet Chertsye to come down to 
hym^ to talke with hym on suche things, but they cam not, nor 
it was there hap so to doo. And at the openinge, fyndinge, and 
redinge of the same paper or will, the said Mr. Hogeson did 
saye thes or like wordes, ** Now, wo is me, to see this daye, 
that so wyse a man shuld make suche an ende, for this is no 
will ; but, if ye wol be conselled by me, ye shuld syt down 
togethers and make a will emongest you, and agre, and that 
shalbe most quietnes to you.'' And Mr. Hely said, "This 
can be no will, for the susters haithe as good righte in this as 
the brether haithe.'' And ther were then present Mr. Hodge- 
son, Mr. Wm. Dent, aldermen, and other byfore named 

Not so much void place as half a shete of paper, and that 
whiche was void was ruled with leade. 

Henry Brandlyng. 



£cclesiastical proceedings. 125 

The personal answer of Margaret Tailour. 

She knoweth of no will nor paper conteyninge the will of hir 
lait brother Sr Robert Brandlinge, but by beresaye onely. And 
she belevithe rather ther is none than any^ for that Mr. Hely^ 
soon after the departure of the same S^ Roberte, at the cownter 
of his hall house^ said to hir that there was no will to be 
founde, but a paper nothing worth, which paper, as the said 
George Hely reaported to hir, was fo^vnd in his cownting house ; 
but she knoweth not how it was laid up or fownde, or whether 
ther be any other will. 

The personal answer of Katherine Byrtfeld. 

She saith she cannot depose any thing at all but by here 
saye onely, and specially of Mr. Hely [of] Lameton, who said 
there was no will there, but a wrytinge dere of 2^ ; and how it 
was laid or fownde she can not depose. 



CLIX. The Will of Robert Easby, curate of Den* 

ton. [C. f. 203.] 

Testes producti ex parte Sithe Stoddert, uxoris Thomae Stod- 
dert, super factione testamenti sive ultimae voluntatis cujusdam 
Roberti Eeasby, clerici, patrui sui, nuper de Denton defuncti, 
necnon producti ex parte Cicilise Mettcalfe, singloman. 1570, 
10 Feb. 

William Carther, of Denton, husbandman, aged 7^ 
years. 

He saithe that the said Sythe he haith knowen 16 yeres, and 
Cicily Medcaf about thre or foure yeres last paste. He saith 
that, byfore mydsomer last past, the said Robert Easby, being 
then erased, maid a will in writinge, which one Cuthbert Blax- 
ton wrotte frome the testator's mouth, in the presence of this 
examinate, Richerd Jaxson, and Alexander Teuerd, which the 
testator sent fore ; the contents whereoflf was that tyme that he 
gave to Cicilie Metcalf a reidd cowe, Nicholes Easby a blake 
cowe, a byll staffe and a chair ; and to John Roddham a bee 
hyve, a byble to the church of Denton, and certain bokes to 



126 DEPOSITIONS, ETC. 

John Lampton ; at what tyme he maid the said Sithe and the 
aforesaid Cidly Metcalffe his executrices. Examined what 
legacye he, the said testator, gave in money the said Cicilye, he 
saith none at all at that tyme, as he remembrith of ; and further 
concerning the contents of the said S' Robert's will at the tyme 
here by hym predeposed he cannot say. Mary, he saith that, 
upon a Monday, a fortnett byfor Christenmas last past, the said 
8^ Robert, beinge sore erased, this examinate went by chanch 
to se as he dyd, at what tyme he founde then with the said 
preist the said Sithe Stoddert, Cuthbert Stoddert, Jane Browne, 
and Elizabeth Browne, wedow ; and this examinate askyd hym 
as he dyd,^ and reasoned with hym a good whyle, and the said 
Robert talked holye and blithly to hym this examinate. And 
at that tyme this deponent asked the said S' Robert for his 
will, and he said that he knew nott wher yt was. And this ex- 
aminate said then to hym, ^^ How will you then doo, who shal 
be dooers for you?'* And he answered and said, "Who but 
Sythe Stoddert, and she to have all that he hadd, and to bring 
hym honestly furthe.** And this examinate said then to the said 
S' Robert, " In your other will ye maid Cicily Metcalf a dooer 
for you, and gave hir a redd cowe.'* To whome he answered 
and said that she shuld nether have co we nor calfe, by cause she 
left hym in his most misyrye. " Mary, I owe hir 309. ; that 
shall she have, and no more of my goods,*' and commandyd the 
said Sithe to back a bouU of wheit and to gyve the same to the 
poore; and further conceminge his will he cannot depose. 
Examined whome he named or maid then his executores, he 
saith he named none at that tyme, but I will that Sith, articu- 
late, shall have that he hadd, brynging hym honestly furth, and 
he might be buried at the crosse in the churche yarde of 
Denton. 

Signum + W. Carther. 



THE RBBRLLION OF 1569. 127 



THE REBELLION OF 1569. 

CLX. Libel against Hearers op Mass. [Dr. Swift's 

Book, f. 109 b.] 

1 . Imprimis, ponit et articulatur, that no other rite, ceremony, 
order, forme, or manner of celebrating the Lorde's Supper, 
openly or privily, or matins, evensong, administration of sacra- 
ments, or other open praiers, or any otherwise, is to be used or 
exercised in any cathedral or pareshe churche or other place 
within this realme of England, Wales, or the merches of the 
same, or other the Queue's dominions, than is mencioned and 
set furthe in one boke called the Boke of Common Praier and 
Administracion of the Sacramentes and other Rites and Cere- 
monies in the Churche of England, which boke is established 
by Acte of Parliament anno l^ Elizabethe, etc. Et ponit et 
articuiatur de tali et tanto ordine et forma, libro, et Actu Parlia- 
menti, qualis et quantus in eventu hujus htis comprobabitur. 

2. Item, ponit et articuiatur, that ther is no other open Praier 
or Devine Service toUerable in this realme, or ment in the said 
Act or other laws of the realme, for other to come unto or heare, 
ether in common churches or privy chappels or oratories, com- 
monly called the Churche Service, then that which is expressed, 
propounded, or affirmed in the article next before going, under 
paines ecclesiasticall and temporall, conteyned in the same Acte* 
Et ponit, etc. 

3. Item, ponit et articuiatur, that, by the same lawes of Eng- 
land, not only Masse, Mattens, Evensonge, and other super- 
stitiouse Latin service devised of late years by the Bishop of 
Rome,' enimy to the crowne of . England, with all his usurped 
authority, is for moste juste causes utterly abolished, but also all 
bokes and ornaments perteyning to the same service is or ought 
to be diffaced, rent, and damned for ever. Et ponit, etc. 



128 DEPOSITIONS^ BTC. 

4. Item^ ponit et articulatur^ that one 

knewe all and singuler the premisses right well, and, in testefica* 
cion that he allowed the Devine Service of the Church of Eng- 
land, and detested the superstitiouse Latin service and usurped 
poure of the Pope within this realme, he, in the late visitation 
of the Reverend Father in God, James, Bushop of Duresme, 
toke a corporall othe upon the Holy Evangelistes and subscribed 
his own hand, ready here to be shewed, in wiche acte he openly 
continewed exercesing the said Devine Service by the space of 
one, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7^ B, 9, 10, and moo yeres nowe last past, and 
was in the Cathedrall or Parish Church of 
at Devine Service, in the morning and evening, the 30 daye of 
November, 1569, or the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9^^^ day of 
December, all, one, or some of those daies, times, and places. 
Et, etc. 

5. Item, ponit et articulatur, that, notwithstandinge the pre- 
misses, the same A. B., beinge in the said churche, the monthes, 
yere, and daies afforesaid, did then and ther come unto, heare, 
and by his personall presence singing, loking, bowing, knocking, 
knelinge, or other reverent gesture and open deades and factes, 
asist, allowe, and maynteyne one Mes John Robson, Robert 
Person, John Pereson, William Holmes, prestes, saying or 
singinge masse, and did him selve singe mattens, evensonge, 
procession after crosses, and receve holy bread and holy water, 
and other rites and ceremonies, in other forme, order, manner^ 
and language then is in the boke by the lawes afforesaid men- 
tioned, or by his corporall othe or actuall subscription confirmed, 
in contempt of God, his owne soule, and lawes afforesaid, and 
offenc and evell example of Christen people. Et ponit, etc* 

The said Tho. Har. also false and erronyouse against God 
and the church and doctrine preached ther by one William 
Holm • • • in the pulpet, and alloweing the same, did therupon 
knell downe and receve absolution under the Pope^s name, in 
derogation of the auncient jurisdiction of the crowne of England 
over all estates in the lande ; any other lawe, statute, privileg, 
liberty, or provision made, had, or suffred to the contrary, not- 
withstanding.* 

* The libel being of a general character, this paragraph stands in the maigin, re- 



THE RBBBLLION OP 1569. 129 

6. Item, ponit et articulaturj that the said 

are notoriouse favourers of superstitiouse Latin service, and 
have so declared themselves. 

7. Item, ponit et articulatur, that, by Acte of Parliament affore- 
said, all and singuler bishopes, and other their officers, exer- 
cising ecclesiasticall jurisdiction, as well in place exempt as not 
exempt, within their dioces, are registred by the Quene^s 
Majestic ; and have full power and authority not only to enquire 
in their visitations, sinodes, or els wher, within their jurisdic- 
tions, of all and every thing and thinges done, committed, or 
perpetrated, contrary to the same lawes, but also to refourme, 
correcte, and punishe, by censures of the churche, all and sin- 
guler persons offending within the limites of their jurisdiction. 
Et ponit. 

8. Item, ponit et articulatur, that the said 
is of the parishe of 



CLXI. Libel against erectbrs op altars and holt» 
WATER VATS. [Swift's Book, f. 110 b.] 

In Dei nomin^^ Amen. 1. Imprimis, ponit et articulatur, 
that, by the lawes and doctrine of the Churche of England, the 
masse is abrogated, as an idolatry and superstition, devised by 
the bishope of Rome, to the gret decay of the trewe honour of 
God and discomforthe to the professours of the truthe of 
Christens religion. 

2. Item, ponit et articulatur, that, by the Quene's Majestic 
Injunctions, all alters ought by the Curates and Churchwardens 
of every pareshe quietly to be taken down and utterly destroied, 
as monumentes of idolatrye and superstition; so that ho 
memorye of the same do remayne in walles, glas windowes, or 
els wher, within any churche or house witiiin this realme. 

3. Item, ponit et articulatur, that, according to the same lawes 
and injunctions, the masse and alters was lawfully abolished, 
taken downe, and uterly destroyed in the Cathedral or parish 

ferring perhapa to the peculiar cases of those who were present when Holmes was 
preaching his sermon in the cathedral. 

K 



130 DBPOBITIONB^ ETC. 

Church of A. and so continewed down and destroied by the 
spiBtce of 1, 2, 8, 4, 5, 6, 7> 8, 9, ten or moe yers. 

4. Item, ponit et articulatur, that one , about 
Sainte Andrewe day last past, anno 1569, by the instigation of 
the devell, open contempt of the Quene's Majestic procedinges, 
and notoriouse maynteininge of popishe service, did, with 
diverse others of like evell disposed persons, rebelliously and 
unlawefully erecte and set up one alter, or holy water fatt, in the 
parish churche of , procuring, commanding, and 
mayneteyning , or therat did worke as a mason, 
by hewinge and layinge of stones and murter, or thereat did 
worke as a laborer, in carying stone, lyme, sand, or other stuffe, 
for the erecting and buylding of the same alter, or did hid the 
alterston or hollywater fat, etc. 

5. Item, ponit et articulatur, that the said A. B. be open and 
notoriouse favorer of popishe and abrogated service, and in 
buyldinge and laboring therat, thei shewed them selves cherefull 
and forward, commending the rebelliouse authors and devisers 
therof, and speaking ther and els wher openly, in derogation of 
the Queue's lawes, or favourers of her procedinges, in destroying 
them and other superstitiouse rites and ceremonies, colored 
under the name of old religion. Et ponit, etc. 



CLXII. Libel against hearers of mass. [Swift's 

Book, f. ill.] 

In Dei nomine Amen. Etc. 1. In primis, ponit et articu- 
latur, that, by the lawes of this realme there is one uniforme 
order, fourme, and maner of Common Praier and administra- 
tion of the Sacramentes and other rites and ceremonies in the 
Church of England, and none other, or otherwise, to be used, 
herd, or comen unto of any subjecte, in any CathedraU, parish 
church, or chappels, or oratories, within the Quene's Majestie^s 
dominions. Et ponit, etc* 

2. Item, ponit et articulatur, that, by the same lawes of Eng- 
land, not only masse, matens, evensong, private confession, 
procession, hallowing of water, bread, and other superstitiouse 



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THE REBELLION OP 1569. 131 

latin service etc., devised of late yers by the bishop of Rome, 
auncient enymy to the crown of England, with all his usurped 
authority, for most just causes is utterly abolished, but also all 
bokes and ornaments belonging the same service is, or ought to 
be, diffaced and rent, and especially all alters, holywater stones, 
and beades, as monumentes of idolattry and superstition, so 
that no memory of the same do remayne in walls, pavements, or 
els wher, within any churche or house within this realme. 

3. Item, ponit et articulatur, that one A. B. knewe all and 
singuler the premisses right well, and practised, allowed^ used, 
and sawe them observed or abrogated in his parishe and dioces 
of Durham, and all the realme, by the space of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 
7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or mo yeres accordinglie. 

4. Item, ponit et articulatur, that the said A. B., about S^ 
Andrew last past, or before fourten day of December 1569, by 
the instigation of the divell, open contempte of the Queue's 
Majestie's godly proceedings, and notoriouse maynteyninge of 
superstitious latin service, with diverse other evell disposed 
persons, whose names he knoweth, with him, did unlawfullye 
erecte and set up, or cause to be erected and set up, one alter 
and holie water stone, as commander, principall workeman, or 
laborer of the same, by hewing and laying of stones, caredg of 
stone, lyme, sand, morter, and also in the same monthes and 
yere came to masse, matens, evensong, procession, and like 
idolatrous service, therat knelling, bowing, knocking,* and 
shewing such hke reverent gesture, used praying on beades, 
confession or shriving to a prest, toke holy water and holye 
breade ; and did also then and ther heare false and erroniouse 
doctrine against God and the churche of England preached by 
one W. Holmes in the pulpit,t and, subjecting him selve to the 
same doctryne, and to the Pope, did, among other like wicked 
people knowen to him, knell down and receved absolution under 
pope Pius name, in latin ; falsely terming this Godly estate of 
England to be a schisme or heresy; in blasphemy and dishonour 
of Christe's religion and derogation of the ancient jurisdiction of 



* Beating the breMt with the right hand, in token of contrition. 
) f In the ma/rgin. Hide the alter stones and holiwater stones — Destroyed bokes and 

' table — Received the communion under one kinde at masse. 

K 2 



132 DEPOSITIONS, BTC. 

the crowne and lawes of England^ by open factes and wordes^ not 
only allowing and doing the premisses in his own person, but 
also abetting, councelling, maynteyning, and threatening others 
to the same wicked, idolatrouse, and popish service, rites, and 
ceremonies, speaking and doing all he cold against the churche 
service and religion of England lawfully established and the 
favourers and professours thereof, to the perell and damnation 
of his own soule and slander of God and christen people. 

5. Item, ponit et articulatur, that the said A. B., by reason of 
the premisses, is a stubborn and rebelliouse hinderer of Code's 
word and Christens religion and the Queue's proceedings, and a 
notoriouse favorer of idolatry, superstition, and popish latin 
service. 



CLXIII. LiBBL AGAINST BuRNERS OP ChURCH BoOKS. 

[Swift's Book. f. 111.] 

1. In Dei nomine. Amen. Imprimis, ponit et articulatur, that, 
by the lawes of England and the Queue's Majesties Injunctions, 
all Churchwardens of every parish and chappell ought to pro- 
vide and safely to kepe one boke of the whole Bible of the 
largest volume, one boke of Common Prayer, two bokes of 
Homelies, and all other church Bokes, to the use of the parish, 
etc. 

2. Item, ponit et articulatur, that the Churchwardens afore- 
said, by lawes and ordinances aforesaid, ought to take down 
and utterly to destroy all althers, as monuments of idolatry 
and superstition, so that no memory of them do remayne in 
walles, pavements, or els, within any churche or house within 
this realme. Et ponit. 

3. Item, ponit et articulatur, that one Robert Gilson and 
WiUiam Merley was churchwardens of the parishe or chappell 
of S^ Giles in Durham at Martenmas last past, and so con- 
tinually till Christmas then next, and afterwardes and before ; 
at which fest of Martinmas, and before, by the space of one, 2, 
3, 4, 5, 6, 7> 8^ 9, or ten yers, ther was in the church aforesaid 
one Bible, Boke of Common Praier, Th' Apology, Holmelees, 



THE REBELLION OP 1569. 133 

etc., and also the alter was then and ther utterly distroied. Et 
ponit. 

4. Item, ponit et articulatur, that the said Robert Gilson and 
William Merley, and other churchwardens and parishioners of 
8^ Giles, not hayinge the feare of God before their eies, and 
by instigation of the devele, contrary to their dewtyes, the 30 
day of November, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7j 8, 9, or tenth day of De- 
cember, 1569, not only set up certen alters in the place afore^ 
said, but also bume, teare, and utterly destroy the Holy Bible, 
the Apology, Homelees, Boke of Praier, etc., in despite of God, 
the Queue majestie's lawes, and damnation of their own soules, 
and to the most pestilent example of all Christian people. 

5. Item, ponit et articulatur, that, by meanes of the pre- 
misses, the said parties^ be open and notoriouse favorers of 
popish religion, and enimies and hinderers of God's word and 
Christe's holy religion, as established by godly lawes in this 
Realme. 



CLXIY. Libel against those who pleaded that they 

HAD been sufficiently CORRECTED BY THE DeAN OF 

Durham. [Swift's Book f. ill, b.] 

In Dei nomine. Amen. • In causa quadam correctionis coram 
vobis, venerabili viro, Domini Episcopi Dunelmensis Vicario 
in spirituaUbus generali et officiali principali, inter Thomam 
Warke, unum inter alios promotorem seu informatorem officii 
vestri, actorem ex una, et Thomam Harison, Johannem Brome- 
ley, Milonem White, cceterosque clericos ecclesiee CathednJis 
Dunelmensis, reos, parte ex altera, vertitur et pendet indecisa, 
pars dicti Thomse Werke, ad corroborandum materiam per se 
exhibitam, reorumque allegationes refutandum, totalemque 
eorum intentionem, omnibus melioribus modis via et juris 
forma, quibus de jure poterit aut potest, dicit allegat et in his 
scriptis conjunctim et divisim in jure propoiiit et articulatur, 
prout sequitur : 

1. In primis, ponit et articulatur, quod, inspectis person- 
alibus responsionibus dictorum Thomae, Johannis et Milonis, 



134 DEPOSITIONS, BTC. 

cieteroruinque clericorum, iidem Thomas, Johannes et Milo, 
cffiterique clerici, rite et legitime confessi sunt crimina et 
delicta contra ipsos objecta, et eorum quisque per se confessus 
est, prout ex responsionibus eorum apparet, ad quasparsista se 
refert, et vos, domine Judex. 

2. Item, ponit et articulatur, that the said parties have not 
bene corrected by the dewe course of the Queue's ecclesiasticall 
lawes, when thei, at the receite of the Holy Communion upon 
Easter day last, in singing at masse and latin service, first, 
because that confession made at the Communion appeareth to 
be done ether by the authority of the curat then ministringe, 
who may deteyne all notoriouse offenders from the Commu- 
nion, except thei openly declare them selves to repent, or els 
willingly beside order and lawe as may appeare to this court by 
the same confession here to be shewed. And, albeit the de- 
fendantes depose that M' Deane appointed them to make that 
confession, wich this plentiff denyethe (for that it is not to be 
shewed by the same writing), yet the said M"^ Deane did never 
judicially precede against the parties as it becometh any judge, 
but privately dealt with them ; neither is M' Deane any com- 
petent Judge in that matter; first, because the Cathedral Church 
have no other jurisdiction over the ministers and clerkes ther 
then is given by the Statutes thereof, made by King Philip and 
Quene Mary, by wich statutes the late latin service is not con- 
demned, but commaunded to be done, and therefore not punish- 
able by them ; secondly, nether jurisdiction, nor any other 
thing, is by King geven to Mr. Dean alone, without the 
Chapter,^ nor by lawe can be, thei both together being one body 
polytique, and by civell imagination one selve person. Besides 
that, if the Dean and Chapter have any jurisdiction besides the 
execution of their coUegiat statutes, the same jurisdiction is 
wholly given and committed to one M' Stevenson by the Dean 
and Chapter, and therefore doth not remayne yet in M^ Deane 
to be executed. Lasteley, the said clerkes have not, nor can not, 
shewe any leter testimoniall, under any autentical scale, of their 
said correctioo, according to the tenor of the Acte of Parlia- 
ment. 

Item, ponit et articulatur, that the said parties for the said 



TH£ REBELLION OF 1569. 135 

offences be not pardoned by the Quene's majesties fire pardon^ 
lately geven to rebels, treasers^ and conspirators^ that levied 
warre here against her graces lawes ; first, because the Quene's 
majestie by proclamation wheron the same pardon is only 
grounded, graunteth and gevethe only fre pardon of iife^ con- 
sidering their late horrible conspiracies, treasons, and rebellions 
practised and prosequited against her majesties person in thes 
Eorthe parties, I mean for thes faultes and not for the time nor 
place wherin diverse other enormities was committed against 
any other law, as more appeareth by the Proclamation here to 
be shewed, for it is not treeson, consperacie, or rebellion in 
lawe to sing latin service or to refuse religion. Secondly, 
albeit the Queue's majestie's Commissioners have geven the 
said parties a tickett or warrant under their handes, which 
ticket speaketh generally of offences done of late in rebellion, 
yet thei can not nor meane not to extend their commission 
beyonde the said Proclamation, seeing they name no saying or 
singing of latin service in the same ticket, and pardonyng, being 
against the lawe of justice, ought not to be expounded more 
against the lawe then the wordes do expressely beare. Neither 
is ther any suche pardon by Acte of Parliament to be shewed 
wiche pardoneth all faultes, gret and small, criminall and 
civill, ecclesiasticall and temporall, against the Quene and the 
party also, albeit that all of faultes and offences that can be 
committed be against some lawe and the Prince imperiall. 
Thirdly, because ecclesiasticall Judges in other dioces do pro- 
cede against enormities committed in time of the late rebellion. 
Fourthly, because the parties aforesaid can shewe nether their 
pardon under the gret scale, nor can bring the Commissioners 
handes to declare that such offences be mente to be pardoned, 
but rather it is to be proved that thei ment more straitely to 
binde all pardoned men to obey lawes ecclesiasticall and to be 
corrected accordingly, as may appeare by the tenor of the othe 
here to be shewed* 



136 • DEPOSITIONS^ ETC. 

DuBHAM CLXV. The Personal Answer op George Cliffe^ 

Mr. George Cliffe^ one of the prebendaryes in the Cathe- 
dral Church of Durham^ aged 57 years. 

He saith^ that article he believeth to be trewe, viz., that ther 
is one order of divine service established by parliament, in the 
Church of England to be observed, and no other. 

He saith, that, by the lawes of the Realme, both Latten ser- 
vice and the auctoritie of the bushop of Rome, and all bookes 
and ornaments belonging the same, ar obbolished. 

He saith that, towching his knowledge in the premisses, his 
ooth, subscription, continuanc, and exercise of the same, in 
forme articulate, is trewe, and he, the said George Cliff, was in 
the Cathedral Church of Durham on S* Androo day, beinge 
the 30^ of November, in the morning, at such service as was 
then and their doon, and he also was upon the Satterday next 
after, as he remembreth, at the evensonge, in his habit, being 
the third day of December, and the Sonday then next after, 
beinge the 4^^ day of December, at the time of morning praier 
lykwaies, in the queir, in his habit. 

He saith, that, beinge in the said church, the 30*^ day of 
November, one Robert Peirson, preist, songe masse at the hye 
alter, at which masse he this examinate was present in the 
queir, and hard him synge masse, but he dyd not singe at ytt 
nor loke at the elevation ; and satt still in his stall and bowed nott 
nor knoked ne kneilde, nor used any other open facte or reve- 
rende jesture. And on Saturdaye, the said thirde day of De- 
cember, he, this examinate, was at evensonge in Latten, and at 
singing of the anthem caulde Gaude, Virgo Christoparay upon 
the said sonndaye at night, as he had bein ther at matt3nns by- 
fore in the morninge. And further he saith that, on the same 
Sonday, the pulpit stonding by the cloke, and he, this exami- 
nate, sittinge in Th. Gibson stall, behind the Lady Bowlton 
aulter,* and, by reason that the preise of people was very great 
he hard his voce, but understode not one sentenc of that which 
was saide by the preacher. And, as for absolucion, he harde of 

* An altar of the Viigin Mary in the tranaept, endowed with the great tithes of the 
chapelry of Bolton, in the pariah of Edlingham, in Northumberland. 



THE^ ^REBELLION OF 1569. 137 

none at that tyme to ♦ afterward ; for, when the people kneled Durham 
down to take absolucion, he thought the preacher had bein byd* 
ding pnders. He receyved no hallibread nor halliwater, nor used 
no other rite or ceremonye .; for he, this examinate, was aither 
redinge of his testament or holdinge talke with one or another. 
He saith that he was nether willinge nor earnest to follow or 
here the said service, nor to receyve the Poop's absolucion, 
whereoff he knew nott ; and, as for bokes or ornaments, he 
knewe not where they had them, nor what worde f of them. 

George Cliffe. X 

CLXVI. The personal answer of Oliver Ashe. [C. 

169, b.] 

Oliver Ashe, curate in the church of St. Giles, in Durham, 
aged 41 years. 

He saith he was in the cathedrall church of Durham on a 
Sonday or hollyday, but what other certain day of the moneth 
of December yt was this examinate remembrith nott. 

He saith that coming to the cathedrall church aforesaid, to 
speake with Mr. Hoomes about sainge of service in the churche 
of St. Giells, who answered hym, that, for so moch as this ex- 
aminate had bein a religious man,§ he coulde not absolve hym, 
sainge that he, this deponent, was excommunicat, and so shulde 
be for hym, the said Holmes, unto he had further auctoritie. 
And, at this examinate commiiig to the said Cathedral Church, 
the said Holmes was at the hynder end of his sermond, but he 
could not well hear or understande hym ; and, after that, the 
said Holmes went to masse, and when the sacringe bell range 
this examinate loked towerd the priest, but he could not decern 
the elevacion ; whereupon he loked up to Mr. Bromley, || then 
in the loft over the queir door, and smiled at hym. 

* Until. f Became. 

X Brought up as a monk of Durham, and ordained an acolite by Bishop Tunstall 
in Durham Cathedral, on the last day of March, 1532. Conformed, and became Pre- 
bendary of the twelfth stall in Durham Cathedral, in 1558. Vicar of Billingham in 
1560. Deposed in 1565. Rector of Elwick in 1562. Rector of Brancepath from 
1571 to 1584. Again Vicar of Billingham. 

§ Originally a professed brother of a religious house, and not merely a secular 
clergyman, although now acting in that capacity. 

II John Brymley, the organist, who was himself personally examined. See hereafter. 



138 DEPOSITIONS^ BTC. 

Durham Examined of the ministration of the Holly Communion, at 

Cj AT H bh bat, __ ' ' 

Easter last, he saith that he ministred the bread and wyn to 
dyvers his parishioners, in their mowthes, and not in their 
hands^ bycause they wold not take yt into their hands. 

Ol.iySRB ASSHB. 



CLXVII. The Personal Answer of William Smith^ 
Minor Canon. 22 ApriUs, 1570. [C. 170.] 

DoMiNUS William Smith, one of the Minor Canons in the 
Cathedral Church of Durham, aged 54 years. 

He saith that he, this examinate, was at 4 masses songe in 
the Cathedral Church articulate^ in the daies and moneth 
aforesaid; wheroff he remembreth well that William Hoolmes, 
Sir John Peirson, and (blank) Robson, dyd synge at thre off 
theim, at the Sanctua and AgnuSy bowinge and knelinge then 
and their, as other dyd ; and once dyd minister and serve at 
the aulter, as an assistante to the preieste, to serve bread and 
wyne, and answer him at the aulter ; and helpt to singe mat- 
tens and evensonge, and went after the cross in procession with 
Orapro nobis, z\\A, havinge a Processioner delyveredto him by 
Th. Mathew, the chanter, he, this examinate, maid holly water 
one or twyss at the south church doore ; but what as is be- 
come of the said boke or the Graill and Antiphoner or the holly 
waiter fatt, he cannot depose, nor knoweth any of them, by 
vertue of his oothe. 

And he saithe that^ upon a Sunday in the mominge^ a 
woman, whose name he knows not, cam to this examinate and 
brought hym a peic of whyte bread to make hallibred off, att 
whose request he consecratt ytt. Also he hard W™ Holmes 
preach in the pulpitt, commendinge the old estayt, and fyndinge 
fault with the newe, and did there absolve his herers in latten, 
whereoff this examinate was one^ but the forme of wordes he 
cannott resyt. He saith, further, that, at the mocion and per* 
suasion of S^ John Peirson, this examinate, havinge a lettre 
frome the said S"^ John Peirson, went to Standrop, the fryday 
byfor the rebells went frome Durham, to the said W^ Hoolmes, 



THE REBELLION OP 1569. 139 

who besyd the letter of S' John Peirson's was hartly moved, Dumam 
upon their submission, to reconsile them frome the sisme; 
every man acknowledging his stait of lyfFe for 11 year last past 
privatly and secretlye dyd promese that they wold nott tmne 
off the same, whereoff this examinat is hartly sory, as he 
confessed of hym selffe openly in the court this day, submitting 
hym selff to the correction of his Ordinarye. 

He saith that at that tyme he was content and willing to doo 
the things by hym herin confessed, beinge a simple man and 
easye to be seduced. As for books or any ornaments he saith, 
upon his ooth, he knoweth not wher they ar or from whence 
they came. Wyll'm Smyth. 



CLXYIII. The personal answer of Robert Hutcheson. 

[C. 170, b.] 

Robert Hutcheson, of the city of Durham, sklaytor, aged 
about 26 years. 

He saith he belyvith, e/c, praing God that he, this examinate, 
never se the masse again, which shalbe his praier durhinge his 
lyff. 

He saith that all aulters aught to be utterlye distrued, and 
no mension of them to remaine. 

He saith that he, this examinate, helpt to sett up 2 aidters in 
the said Cathedral church, about the tyme articulate, at com- 
mandement of Mr. Cuthbert Nevell, which sent for Henry 
Younger and this examinate to the castell, and kept them ther 
in one dongeon, by cause they refused to deale or meddle with 
settinge up of any aulters, and, for that he threatened them stiU 
to continew ther, the said Robert and Henry did at last consent 
to his commandment; and so dyd, the morrowe after and the 
next day, togyther gett both the alter stones, the one on Mr. 
Swyflft backsyd * and the other was hedd in the century garth 
under moch mettalLf Examined who shewed this examinate 

* Mr. Swyft wa« Prebendary of the first stall in the Cathedral, 
f Rubbish of earth or stones. The word is still in common use. 



140 OBPOSITIONS^ ETC. 

DuBHAx and his feUow to the said stones, he saith the said Henry had 
this deponent into the said century garth, wher the ston articu- 
late was hyd. Examined what help or other workeman was 
labonnge with this deponent and the said Henry^ at the said 
aulters, he saith, John Olyver, Thomas Johnson, Anthony 
Ranson, Robert Bawmor, Richard Johnson, Jenkyn Waill, 
Martyn Underwood, Anthony Garstell, George Smirthwatt 
and John Yonger, all ^ich helpte by ther labour at the wyn- 
dowes* rowlinge and lyffting to bringe the said 2 stones 
into the churche. Examined, wher the lyme was gotten that 
they used for the settinge up the said aulters, he saith, in the 
church, by the meane of the priest of Branspeth, which caused 
the doors to be broken up, to this examinate knowled,t the which 
priest was the overseer off all their working, furst and last, to the 
aulters was finished ; one of them being the hygh alter in the 
queir and the other alter sett besyde the cloke : and that the 
said Olyver and Jenkin Waill fett water and the lyme this ex- 
aminate and his fellow Henry Younger used. And, as for the 
hallywater fatts, this examinate cannott tell howe they wer 
browght, or by whome, into the said church. Marye, this 
deponent, comminge into the church, and seinge men of the 
town lyfftinge at the said stones, to place them, he this exami- 
nate helped theme also to lyfft at the said hallywater fatts next the 
great church door; but for the mens names that lyffted at 
them byfore this examinate came to helpe he cannot depose : 
savinge that many of them was soldyers, and ther was neither 
lyme nor sand occupied about the said fatts ; nor wher the 
said fatts was hid, byfore they were brought furthe, he this 
examinate cannot depose. 

He saith that his, this examinates, labour ^t the said aulters 
was not cheirfull but sore his defendinge and against his will, 
yf he culd have mendyd hym selffe ; and further, upon his 
oothe, he never spake or hard any of the above named rejois or 
speak, at any tyme, such words as articulate, or any thinge 
against the Queue's majesties lawes or the favorers of them — 



* Windlass. f Knowledge 



THE REBELLION ^P 1569. 141 

he gait no waidges for his labour — ^leavmge the names of all Durham 
bis said workfellowes in writinge Apud Acta in a litle peac of Cathedral 
paper. 

Signum + Robbrti Hutcheson. 

CLXIX. The personal answer op John Oliver. [C. 

171, b.] 

John Oltter, of the city of Durham, laborer, alias roodd- 
man, aged 50 years. 

He saith that by the lawes of the realme the masse was not to 
be allowed, nor is to the honor of God, for he, this examinate, 
likes better of this English service then the old Latten servic. 

He thinks the second article to be trew and the contents 
ther of. He saith by the spaice and tyme articulate their was 
nether mass or alters in the said church, which he thinks was 
taken away by God and the Queene^s lawes. 

He saith that, about the tyme articulate, this examinate was 
a labourer under Henry Younger and Robert Hutcheson, at. 
the setting up of two alters in the Cathedral Church articulate, 
and examined who sett hym a work he saith this examinate 
was a watchman at the jauell yaitts * and frome thenc com- 
mandyd by Mr. Cuth. Nevell upon pain and hanging to labor 
with the said Henry and Robert for Mr. Cuth. and Sir Robert 
Peirson knew this examinate to have been a workman and a 
laborer at Brancepeith. Examined where the alterstones wer 
gotten, for the bygger of them, which was at the hye alter, 
concordat cum Roberto Hutcheson, and for thother, nescit 
deponere. Examined of the names of them which wrought 
with this examinate as laborers, water berers, or carier of 
stoones, or hewinge with levors, he knoweth nott the names 
of any of them : he saith the said Henry and Robert Hutche- 
son prentesses was 2 of them, but he knoweth not ther 
names. Examined how many day he wrought with the said 
Henry and Robert, he saith three days. Examined of the 

* The gaol gates ; a gateway built by Bishops Skirlaw and Langley, which serred 
as the prison of the oonnty. 



142 DEpftsiTIONS, ETC. 

DuBHAM paiment of his waidges, he saith that he^ nor no of them, to his 
Cathsd&al knowledg, at* any waidges, although promessed them to he 
honestly paid, saving that one Nan Bendy and Hutcheson maidd 
helpt to cary lyme and sand, and as for the hollywater fatt this 
examinate can nott depose of the fynding of them, or the 
settinge up of them, and further to that article he cannot 
depose. 

He saith, by his othe, he wrought that work againste his 
will ; utterly denyinge that he ever spoke or said at that tyme 
any thing against the Quene*s proceedings or any favorers 
thereof, or praised or commendyd Mr. Nevill, or them that sett 
hym to that labor, and other waies he can not say to that 
article. 

Signum -f Johannis Ojlyver. 

CLXX. The personal answer of Henry Younger. 

[C. 172, b.] 

Henry Younger, of Durham, sklaitor, aged 36 years. 

He saith that, about the tyme articulate, this examinate was 
commandyd by Mr. Cuthbert Nevill and one Holmes, Mr. 
Gray and the priest of Branspeth, to sett up fy ve alters, whereofF 
two alters this deponent help to sett up ; but for the hollywater 
fatts he, this examinate, sett up none of them, nor was not in 
the towne at setting up of them, for, by cause he had no mony 
for his labors at the said alter, he, this deponent, gatt him away 
to Eggiscliff to his mother's and ther taried ; sainge all the 
labor that he dyd conceminge the said alters was sore against 
hys wiU, and was in prison fast in the castell two day and 
one night, and soore thretyned hym, or ever he consentyd to 
sett up or labor for the said alter stone, which was then hedd 
in the earth. Examined what mo laborers was with this ex- 
aminate, he saith Robert Hutchinson, the ruddman, Jenkin 
Waill, Thomas Johnson, and no more, that he can remember. 
And as for heringe of masse, usage of beads, taking of hally water, 
and hally waiter, t he used nor hard none, nor at Holmes' ser- 
mond« + 

* Had or reoeived. f Ita. 



THE REBELLION OF 1569. 143 



CLXXI. The personal answer of John Waill. Dubham 

rr* 1 >Trt u T Cathedral 

[C. 1/2,0.] 

John Waill, of Durham, laborer, aged 40 years. 

He saith he was at the setting up upon the high alter, in the 
Cathedral Church, with Hutcheson and others, as a laborer, 
sapng also that he toke halliwater at the great church door, but 
who maid it or sett up the stone he canott depose ; and was at 
2 masses there, but he was not at the sermond, nor used no 
beads. 

He is sory for his falts, and desierith God and the Queue's 
Majestic to forgyve hym.» 

Signum + Johannis Waill. 

CLXXII. The .personal answer of Sir William 
Blenkinsopp, Priest, one of the Minor Canons in 
THE Cathedral Church of Durham. [C. 176.] 

William Blenkinsop, aged 65 years. 

He saith that (the first) article is trewe, and all the contents 
therein ; for this examinate haith redd the said Acte of Parlia-^ 
ment whereupon the said article is growndyd. 

He saith that he thinks that article (the third) also to be 
trewe, for the things therein expressed ar abolished by lavee. 

He saith that he knewe all and singular the premisses right 
well, and toke the ooth articulate befor the bushop off Durham, 
and setto his hand in the sayd lorde's Yisitacion, contynuing 
and exercising the same by the yeres articulate, and he was in 
the said Cathedral Churche, as he remembrith, the last day of 
November, and 8 or 10 dayes in December. 

He siaith that, beinge in the said church the dayes, tymes, 
and monethes aforesaid, as he remembrith upon St. Androo 

* The punishment inflicted by the court upon this person and upon Heniy Younger, 
Robert Hutchinson, and John Olyver, the three preceding culprits, was as follows : — 
** 1570. 5 Mali. Judex injunxit eis pcenitentiam in vestibus lineis, in fitcie ecclesiis 
sun parochialis, nudatis pedibus et capite, unica vice, et ad certificandum infra zz dies 
in flcriptis.**— Coiitrnporary Act Book of Courts t 201. 



144 1>BP08ITI0NS^ ETC. 

DuBHAM daye, one Robert Peirson said masse at the hye aulter in 
the said Cathedral Churchy and within the quier ther ; whereatt 
this examinate was present^ emongest others^ and th'Erle of 
Northumberland, coming to Durham the satterday next after, 
one William Holmes preached in the same Church on the Son- 
day the morrow next after, in which his sermond this examinate 
harde the said Holmes speake expressedly againste the stait 
of Reli^on established here in England by the lawes of this 
realme, and commending the laitt servic that was abolyshed, 
and afterward, affirming that he had auctoritie to reconsyle men 
to the Churche of Roome, willyd all, that was disposed to 
be reconsyled, to kneill doon ; whereupon he pronounced a 
forme absolucionis in Latten, in the name of Christ and bushop 
Pius of Roome ; emongest which sorte that kneiled this exami- 
nate was oon. And be saith further that he, this examinate, 
Thomas Mathew, John Browne, WiUiam Smithe and Richard 
Banckus, petticannons, at the persuasion of Sir John Peirson, 
who tolde them that they coulde not onlye enjoye no lyvinge, 
nor doo any servic, but also shulde be spoyled and perchance 
have a worse torne except they were reconsyled, they went 
altogyther to Standrope, with a lettre of Sir John Peirson's in 
their byhalfe, to William Holmes, being then at the said Stand- 
rope, cominge from the Churche ther; and, after they hadcom- 
moned with hym, and professed themselves to that stayt which 
he caulde catholicall, and refused th'other cauld sismaticall, he, 
the said Holmes, was content to admitt them as decons to 
minister in the Churche, but not to selebrat. And, comyng 
home frome thence, he, this examinate, helpt to sing mattens, 
evensonge, and other service in the queir 4 or 5 days to gythers, 
and went in procession twise or thrise, emongest others, after 
the Crosse, within the said Cathedrall churche. 

He saith he was a faulter and a favorer, as far as he haith 
her confessed, and his hartly sorye for the same. 

He graunts that (the seventh) article also to be trew. 

William Blbnkynsopb. 



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riT •w-tTTTT m Ddhham 

CLiXXIII. The personal answer op Richard Banckus^ Cathbdral 

Priest. [C. 176, b.] 

Richard Banckus^ priest^ another of the minor canons^ 
aged 63 years. 

Saper 1®, 2*>, et 3"* articulis, concordat cum Willielmo Blen- 
kinsop. 

Super 4^, he saith that he knew the premisses well, and 
haith used to say and singe servic according to the lawes of the 
realme theis 10 or 11 yere, within dioces of Durham and Yorke, 
but he haith not bifore the bushope off Durham aither sub- 
scribed by his hand writinge or taken the corporall ooth articu- 
late, save only byfor doctor Sands and others, the Quene's 
visytors ; and he saith further that he was in and about the 
said Cathedrall Church about the latter ende of November, 
and the daies articulate in December. 

Super 5^ articulo, he saith, that, in the monethes, days, and 
Cathedral Church abovsaid he remembrith that he, this exa- 
minate^ was present in the quere ther, and helpt to sing thre 
masses^ viz.. Sir John Peirson, William Holmes, and a tall 
priest that he knew nott, using such gestur as men commonly 
use to doo at masse. And one tyme, by the commandement of 
Thomas Mathew, the chaunter in the said queir, this deponent 
went and helped th' said Holmes masse ;^ and help also to singe 
mattens, masse, evensonge, and procession after the crosse, 
saing that he, this examinate, was at the sermond that the said 
Holmes maid in the said Cathedral Church ; but ther was such 
a multitude of people at the same that this examinate could not 
her one worde he said. And, as touchinge his absolucion or 
reconsiliacion he receyvd off the said Holmes at Standrop, he 
agreith in all points with the aforesaid William Blenkinsop. 

Super sexto, he saith he cannott but graunt to his owne 

offences ; but he is sory for the same, for it was against his will 

all he dyd and for feir of his lyffe. And as for the bookes, 

mass clothes, hallywater stones, he cannott depose of them, nor 

knoweth wher any of them ar. 

Super septimo fatetur esse verum. 

Rychard Banckus. 



146 DBPOSITIONS^ BTC. 



DUBHAM 

Cathboiul 



CLXXIY. The personal answer op Roland 

Blenkinsop. [C. 1770 

Roland Blenkinsop, priest, another of the minor canons, 
aged 69 years. 

Super 4^ articulo, he saith that article &c. is trewe. 

Super 5^, he saith, that, in the monethes, yere, and dayes 
articulat, he saith he was at thre seyerall masses, and helpt to 
sing at them in the said Cathedral Churche, and used such 
gesture as men doith commonly that herith masse, naminge 
Holmes articulate and Sir Robert Peirson that songe the said 
masses ; and that he also helpt to sing mattens and evensonge 
thre or 4 dayes, but he went not after the procession, nor songe at 
anthem. He also came into the church when Holmes was in 
preaching, with his surpess on, and when he could nott come 
neir for preis, he, this examinate, went into the queire and sett 
down in his stall ther, and hard nothinge that he, the said 
Holmes, said in his sermond, nor dyd se the people submett 
themselves to his, the said Holmes', absolucion ; but he toke 
holly water ofte tymes, but no holly bread. 

Super sexto he saith, and confessith, that he haith said 
and doon contrary the Quene's Majestic procedings, and is 
hartly sory for the same ; saing yt was soor against his will, 
and was forsed by the commandement of my Lord of North- 
umberland to come to the church and doo all that be dyd ; but 
as for the books articulate he, this examinate, cannott thereupon 
depose, nor knoweth wher any of the said books ar. 

Super 7°*°> fatetur verum. 

Super 8^<>, fatetur, etc. 

Roland Blenckynsop. 



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CLXXV. The personal answer op William Watson.* 

[C. 177, b.] 

William Watson, chaplain of St. Mary Magdalen, aged 
60 years. 

Super 10^ 2^0, and 3^, he knowith them most certainly so 
to be. 

Super 4^, he saith and confessith that article also to be 
threwe. 

Super 5^, he saith, in the place and tyme abovesaid, he, 
this examinate, was in the quere at 2 sundry tymes, and 
saw masse, but neither said or song at one or other of them ; 
and once he went about emongest the people at a parte of the 
procession, but neither said or song at ytt ; saing that he, this 
examinate, was amonge many other the tyme that Holmes 
preached, but he culde not here what he said for the preas of 
people ther, and was ther when the people kneild doon, which 
this examinate toke to be a praier, but tof afterward he knew 
that not to have been any benediction or absolucion from the 
Pope ; saying that he toke hoUywater as other dyd. 

Super sexto he saith that he is sorrye for that he haith doon, 
according to this confession in the premises, and never intendith 
to doo the lyk again by God's grace. 

Sup. septimo et 8^® fatetur, &c. 

WiLL^M Watson. 

CLXXYI. The personal answer of John Baxter. 

[C.178.] 

Johannes Baxter, capellanus^ Rector Ecclesiee parochialis 
de South Balye, cetatis Ixxiiij annorum, juratus, &c. t 

* Probably the William Watson, alicu Wylom, who held the office of sub-prior, 
prior's chapkdn, and keeper of the shrine of St. Cuthbert at the Dissolution, in 1540, 

t Until. 

t This heading of the Deposition is given as it stands in the book. It has been 
already stated that the others are presented to the reader in a translated form. 
Baxter held his Rectory of the South Bailey by the presentation of the Earl of West- 
moreland ; and we oannot be surprised when we find him espousing the cause of his 
patron. He was buried in his church 15 Aug. 1570. 

L 2 



DUBHAM 



148 DEPOSITIONS^ ETC. 

D^J*"^" Super I®, 2*>, 8®, and 4^, articulis ezaminatas concordat 
cum domino Willielmo Watson. 

Super 5^, dicit, that he, this examinate, was at 2 masses in 
the cathedral churcbe, viz.. Sir Robert Peirson mase and 
Sir John, and was present when the said Holmes articulate 
preached and gave the absolucion to the people, and kneilld 
downe emongest other: and after warde, by the mocion of 
Sir John Peirson, came to the said Holmes, in the said Peirson 
chamber, wher this examinate was of the said Holmes recon- 
syled at the last; and that was by the commandment of 
Mr. Cuthbert Nevill, sayinge that he toke hoUywater at the 
surch [church] door as other dyd. 

Super sexto, he knoweth not of any books or ornaments 
belonging to the masse, or any part of latten service ; and is 
hartly sory for this his offence conteyned in the premises that 
he haith doon. 

Super 7^^9 fatetur, &c. 

Super 8^0, credit de creditis, &c. 

John Baxter. 



CLXXVII. The personal answer of John Brimley. 

[C. 184, b.] 

John Brimlby, master of the choristers in the Cathedral 
Church of Durham, aged 67 years. 

He belyveth that there is no other servic than that which is 
sett furth by Acte of Parlyment. 

He belyvith that no subject ought to owne to any other 
servic but that which is allowed by the lawes of this redme. 

He saith that masse, mattyns, and evensonge, the bushop of 
Rome auctoritie, bookes and ornaments perteyning unto the 
same service, ar by the law abrogatyd. 

That he knewe the premises articulate, toke the oothe and 
used the same things articulate by the spaic of the yeres within 
named. 

He saith that, in the monethes, yere, and dales articulate, he 
remembrith well that he was twice att masse when Robert 



THE REBELLION OF 1569. 149 

Peirson, William Homes, songe the same within the said Dtoham 
Cathedrall Church ; but he songe nott hym selff at them^ but 
played at orgaines, and dyd dyvers tymes help to singe salvaes 
at mattynes and even songe ; and plaid on the organes, and 
went in procession^ as other dyd^ after the Crosse. He hard a 
peic also of William Holmes sermon, wherin he spoke moch 
in commendacion of the Pope ; but other things he, this ex- 
aminate, cannot remember, save only that he badd men knell 
doon upon their kneis to be reconsyeld, emongest which this 
examinate knelde also as other dyd. He receyved hoUywater, 
but no holly breid, to his wyttinge. 

He said that all the premises that he this examinate hath 
doon he is sory for the same, and that he dyd yt by com- 
pulcion ; sainge further that he knoweth not what is woorde of 
the graill that he commonly used for the teachinge of the 
children. 

Ad positiones additionales, he saith, at the tyme articulate, 
he instructyd the choristers in such things as they dyd in the 
Quere, perteninge to service at that tyme, but not since nor 
byfore. 

That the priests that songe masse required this examinate 
and others to sett forward the servic, which thei rather dyd by 
commandement of Mr. Cuthbert Nevil and the Erie of Nor- 
thumberlande. 

He saith that he haith not bein attaintyd or correctyd for his 
offenc, herein confessed, but he trustith that he is pardoned 
by the Queues Majesties fire pardon. 

JOHNE BrYMLBY.* 



* Master of choristeis and organist from 1557 till 1576, in which latter year he 
died, and was buried in the Galilee of the Cathedral, beneath a stone thus inscribed, 
and still remaining : — 

** John Brimleis body here doth ly, 

Who praysed God witli hand and voice ; 
By music^s heayenly harmonic 

Dull myndee he maid in God rejoice. 
His soul into the Heayens is lyft, 
To prayse Him still that gave the gyft.** 



150 DEPOSITIONS, ETC. 

DUKRAM 

Cathedral CLXXVIIL ThE PBBSONAL ANSWER OP WiLLIAH StMB. 

[C. 185.] 

William Stmb, one of the lay derks or singingmen (unus 
clericorum) in the Cathedral Church of Durham, aged about 
40 years. 

He saith that he was in the Cathedral Church in the yere, 
monethy and days articulate, and, beinge ther, he hard and sawe 
to his remembrance thre masses songe in the Cathedral church 
articulate, viz. Sir Robert Peirson's one, and William Holmes' 
twyse, and used such gesture as other dyd, and certain tyme 
dyd help to sing mattens, evensong, anthemes and procession 
after the Crosse. He saith that he hard a peic of William 
Holmes' sermond preiched by hym, wherein he spoke against 
the religinge now placed in this realm, and commendyd the 
Pop and his religion, and hard hym, the said William Holmes, 
. gyve his blessinge in latten with his hand, all the people 
knelinge doon, emong whom this examinate kneiled as other 
dyd. He red one lesson, but he receyved neither holly bread 
or holly water. 

He saith he dyd the offences byfore by hym commyttyd, but 

takes God to recorde that was against his myend, and he is 

^ sory for the same : and as for the booke and ornaments he 

saith he knew not from whence they came, or what worde of 

them. 

He saith that he thinks the bushop articulate haith aucto* 
ritie to correcte. 

Super positionibus additionalibus. — He haith not had to do 
with the teaching of any the queristers thes 4 yeres now last 
past. 

He saith he offerd not hym selff to do any thing off the 
premises, but toke his place and dyd as other dyd. 

He saith he haith not been attaynted or convict or corrected 
upon his offenc, but he hopith that the Queue majestic haith 
gyven hym free pardon. 

Will'm Sym. 



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DUBHAM 

Cathedbal 

CLXXIX. Thb pbrsonal answbb op John Clabk. 

[C, 185, b.] 

John Clark, another of the lay clerks or singing men (alius 
clericorum) there, aged 43 years. 

He saith that, in the monthe, yere, and dayes articulate, he 
was dyvers tymes in the morning and evening, and being ther 
he sawe 2 masses, the one said by William Holmes and the 
other by John Robson, priest, wheras he helped to singe and 
doo as use was byfore tyme ther, and 2 or 3 daies by tymes 
helped to sing evensong and mattens and anthomes, and went 
twise in procession thorow the Cathedral Church after the 
crosse. As for holly bread and holly water he receyved non, 
nor knoweth what is become of the holly stone or the graills 
and antiphoners, which he supposith came out of the revestrye. 
He also herd WiUiam Holmes preich once, who, after he had 
spoken moch against the reUgion now established in England, 
and also much in commendacion of the religion browght frome 
Rome, — ^wished and charged ech man to acknowledge his former 
faultes in falling to the schisme frome the Catholic religion, as he 
termed yt; and thereupon openly reconsyled and absolved, in 
the Pope^s name, all the herers ther, emongest which this 
examinate was one, and ther present. 

He is sory for the things doon and by hym confessed. 



CLXXX. The personal answer of Thomas Harrison. 

[C. 186.] 

Thomas Harrison, another of the lay clerks in the said 
Cathedral Church, aged 39 years. 

He s^th that he was at the masses by Robert Peirson, William 
Holmes, and John Robson, and songe at two off them, as other 
the clerks dyd ; and dyd se Robson^ masse articulate afar off, 
using such gestir at them as other dyd, saving he never helpt 
to syng at mating or evensong, but was twyse at procession 
after the Crose, and sang at two or three anthemes. He hard 



152 OBPOBITIONB^ BTC. 

CAra^&L. '^ ^ P*^ ^' ^^ "^^ Holmes' sennond^ wherein he spoke 
against religion now receyred^ and praised the Pop and catholick 
religion^ as he termed ytt : and tberupon he pronounced the 
Pop's blessing in latten to so many as was penitent, knelinge 
upon ther kneis, this examinate also kneing doon amongest 
other: and the same Hohnes termed this estayt of England to 
be erroneous and sismaticall. He receyved neither holly bread 
nor holly water. 

He saith that he haith not, by lettres or otherwais, been 
willinge to sett forward the popish religion, or willing to receyve 
the Pop's absolucion, nor a favorer of such rites. 

He dyd not enstructe the sing^ngmen or the queristers to 
lem the servic that rebellion sett up. 

He saith that one, whom he now cannot remembre, asked 
Sir John Peirson about the queir door whither the masse shulde 
be said or simg, and he said Mr. Nevill's pleasour was that yt 
shuld be song. 

He saith that he never moved Hudson nor thretned hym at 
any tyme« 

He saith he is not attaintyd, but he belyvith that he haith 
bein lawfullye corrected by Mr.Deane of Durham, and pardoned 
by the Queue's Majestic. 

Thom's Hbrreson. 



CLXXXI. The personal answer of Miles White. 

[C. 186, b.] 

Miles White, another of the lay clerks in the said Cathedral 
Church, aged about 30 years. 

He saith that, in the monethes, yere, and daies articulate, he, 
this examinate, was at thre or 4 masses don in the said 
church by the persons articulate, doing and exhibiting such 
reverences as other dyd; and also dyd hym self singe at 
mattens, evenson, anthomes, and procession after the Crose, as 
other dyd certain tymes ; he also hard William Holmes speak- 
ing and preichinge aganst the servic and religion of this realme, 
commending the other; and after that he had exortyd the 



THE ftBBBLLION OF 1569. ISS 

herers to declyne frome this dangerous estait they weir in, and Dtoham 

1 • 1 Cathedral 
also had willyd them that were not willinge to submitt them 

selves to the Catholik religion, as he caulde it, to depart thence ; 
and then they that dyd submitt them selves to kneill doon and 
take absolucion at his hands, which he pronuncide in the Pope 
Hus^ name over the knelers, wheroff this examinate was one ; 
and whither the things doon and commytyd by him, this exami- 
nate, was against the lawe of this realme he referrith hym selff 
to the said lawe. 

He saith the things by hym confessed he this deponent is 
sori for ; and, as for the books articulate or the ornaments, he 
knoweth not wher any of them ar« 

He saith he was never attantyd, as is articulate; but he 
thinks that he was correctyd by Mr. Dean concemyng the 
premisses, and he bely vith certainly that all his offenses hereto- 
fore by hym confessed ys pardoned by the Quene's majestie's 
free pardon. 

Mtlbs Whytb. 



CLXXXII. Additional Positions against Thomas 

Harrison. [Swift's Book, f. 110.] 

Positiones additionales et articulos sequentes in quadam 
causa correctionis et reformationis inter Thomam Wark, unum 
inter alios informatorem officii vestri, ex una, et Thomam 
Harison, clericum ecclesiee Cathredralis Christi et beatse Mariae 
virginis Dunelmensis ex altera, mota et pendente, idem Thomas 
Wark contra eundem Thomam Harison dat, facit, proponit, et 
exhibet. 

1 . Dicit that Robert Pereson, prest, as he was making him selve 
ready towerd masse, being asked of the quire, whether thei 
shold helpe to singe masse and other service being unreaconciled^ 
[said] that all that were reconsiled in hert shold so do, wher- 
upon, among others, the said Thomas Herison did open facte 
shewe him selve willing to helpe to singe the masse, matens, and 
evensong, lessons, procession, and other service. 



154 DBP08ITION8, ETC. 

DusHAii Imprimis^ addendo dicit, that the said Thomas Hanson, 
by the space of diverse daies^ before and after ther was any 
masse, matens, or other service done in the Cathedral Church of 
Durham, did provide, or at the least occupy, certen imlawf uU 
bokes, as well privately as in the scholes, instructing the clerkes 
and queristers to say and sing the same abrogated service, and 
in saing and singing the same afterward did shewe him selve 
willing, busy, and forward, as it is before articulated. Et 
ponit, etc. 

Item ponit, that the said Thomas H., to avoide the due cor- 
rection for the premisses, did, the 17th day of Apr. instant, on 
the Place Grene, among others exhort, move, or threaten 'the 
said Richard Hudson, promotour, to cease and give over his 
accusation and information of his offences. 

Item ponit, that the said Thomas Harrison hath not, accord- 
ing to the statute, bene lawfully convicted by the lawes of this 
realme, or otherwise by order of the Queue's ecclesiasticall 
lawes corrected or pardoned for the premises. 



CLXXXIII. The personal answer of Thomas 

Knighton. [C. 187.] 

Thomas Knighton, another of the lay Clerks in the cathe- 
dral Church aforesaid, aged 56 years. 

He saith that, in the yere, monethes, and some of the dales 
articulate, he tibis examinate was personally present in the said 
Cathedral Church, wher he dyd se thre or 4 masses said and 
doone by the priests and persons articulate; and at dyvers 
tymes songe at mattyns, eavonsonge, masse, and antymes, and 
also at the procession after the Crosse, as other his fellowes 
dyd. He took hollye waiter, but no holly breade, at any man's 
hand, that he can remember. Also he saith that he sawe 
Holmes, articulate, in the pulpett, but could not, nor dyd, her * 
what he said, for the greate thronge of people, and came furthe 
of the queir in that very moment tyme that the people was 
knelinge doon. And thereupon he, this examinate, kneled 



TBB RBBBLLION OF 1569. 155 

downe emong them^ but he culd not her what the preicher said Dv^am 
then to them that knelyd, he had so smal a voice. And this 
examinate came not in the throng of them^ and other waies to 
this article he cannot depose. 

He saith that he was never any eameste setter forward of the 
popish religion^ or moche favord the same^ but abhorde rather 
many of the superstidons belonging therto ; sainge that the 
premisses and faulte byf or by hym this examinate commyttyd 
was moch against his will ; and for the books articulate he can 
neither depose wher thei ar, nor howe they came to the queir^ 
but out of the revestry^ to his knowledge. 

He haith not considered upon the 7th article^ but he thinks 
the contents thereoff wer trew, yf the Queue's pardon and 
M^" Deane's punnisment had not bein execute for and concerning 
the said offences commytted and confessed as is abovesaid. 

He saith that he was never convictyd nor attantyd^ but he 
belyvith that he is punished and correctyd. 

Tho. Knighton. 



CLXXXIV. The personal answer of Thomas Gibson. 

[C. 187, b.] 

Thomas Gibson, one of the aforesaid lay clerks in the said 
Cathedral Church, aged 53 years. 

He saith that^ in the place^ y^re, moneth^ and dayes aforesaid^ 
he remembrith well that he was twise at masse in the Queire, 
wheroff he is certain that William Holmes dyd the one. He 
saith that he loked at ytt, knelyd and used other reverend gestur 
therto, and all against his good wyll ; and dyd also hym selff as 
one of the clerks of the quier sing mattens, evensonge, anthems^ 
and procession certaine dayes after the crosse. He was also at 
part of William Holmes' sermond, wherin he perceyved how he 
declared that they had bein ledd out of the catholick faith of 
*the church, and kneild downe amonge other when the said 
William Holmes blessed the people with his hand, and as he 
toke yt gave absolucion. He toke holly water also, and holly 
bread, and further he cannott depose, saing further that when 



156 DEPOSITIONS^ ETC. 

i)uRH4M ther was no servic in the said Cathedral church by the spaic of 
8 days, he, this examinate, and Richard Bell moved Sir William 
Hardinge to provide bookes and begin service according to the 
Quene's lawes, as they dyd, wherefore they were all soore 
blamed. 

That for the things by hym committed he is right sory, and 
knoweth not what is worde of the books articulate. 

He saith he haith not been convictyd nor attentyd, but he 
was correctyd by Mr. Dean, and hopith that he is pardoned. 

By me, Thomas Gybson. 



CLXXXV. The personal answer of Richard Bell. 

[C. 188.] 

Richard Bell, another of the said lay clerks in the said 
Cathedral Church. 

He saith that he was in the said church, the yere, monethes, 
and dales articulate, and hard and sawe thre or 4 of the masses 
of the priest articulate, and used gesture therto as others dyd, 
for tyme cause enspeciall, but against his good will, and help to 
singe at some of thoise masse, and also songe att mattyns, 
evonsong, anthems, and procession after the crosse, emonge 
other his fellowes. He neither toke holly bread or holly water, 
but he was at Holmes' preichinge, which, to this examinate's 
remembranc, declared that the servic established by the Quene's 
highnes in this realme was a schisme and hericy, and not the 
trew servic of God, commending the latten service set furth by 
the bishop of Rome to be the trewe servic of God. The which 
preicher gaive absolucion to the people, knelinge upon ther 
knees, in the name of Pope Pius ; emongest which this exami- 
nate knelyd, as other dyd ; and other waies to this article he 
cannot depose. 

He saith that he was not a notorious favorer at any tyme, as 
is articulate. Mary, he confessith that he haith ben an offender, 
as appeirith by this his examination, and is sory therfor, for so 
moch as yt was moch against his will. 



THE REBBLLION OP 156SL 157 

Thinketh that the 7th article wer trewe, yf the Dean had not Dumam 
punished hym, and the Quene's highnes pardoned hym. 

He saith that he was never attayntyed, but corrected and 
pardoned. Rychard Bbll. 



CLXXXVI. The personal answer of George Cuth- 

BBRT. [C. 188, b.] 

George Cuthbert, another of the aforesaid lay clerks ii^ 
the said Cathedral Church. 

He saith that he^ this examinate, was in church the yere^ 
moneth, and the daies articulate, and hard and saw many of the 
masses done in the queir by the persons articulate, to the 
nombre of four or fyve, said and songe ; and also emongest 
other his fellowes he songe att dyvers of the said masses, and 
helpt all to sing mattins, evonsonge, and anthems, and also pro- 
cession after the cross, as other dyd ; he toke neither holly bred 
nor hollywater, but he sawe William Holmes, articulate, in the 
pulpett, but he hard nothinge what he said or tretyd upon, for 
the great prease of the people, unto he came to the praiers, 
when he praied for Pope Pius the fyffte, in whose name he 
gave absoludon in latten, the people knelinge downe all that 
tyme upon ther knewes, emongest which examinate kneilde as 
other dyd. 

Super positionibus additionalibus. — He saith that he, this 
examinate, came to Robert Peirson, articulate, being redye to 
go to masse, and said to hym, '^ Do you masse this ?^' And he, 
the said Robert, said, ^^ Ye." And then this deponent asked 
hym whether yt shulde be song or said, who answered that 
Mr. Nevill's commandement was yt shuld be songe. 

He saith that he was never convictyd or attantyd, but cor* 
rectyd by Mr. Deane, and pardoned by the Quene's majestic, as 
he belyvith. 

George Cuthbert. 



158 DEPOSITIONS^ ETC. 

DUBHAM 

Cathedral CLXXXVII. ThB PERSONAL ANSWER OP ThOMAS PaWELL.* 

Thomas Fa well, aged 47^ didt that, yere, daies, and 
monethes libellat, he hard 3 masses in place aforesaid, song or 
said by Robert Pereson, William Holmes, and Sir John 
Pereson, loldng at them or toward them, as men use to do. He 
song at those masses, as all the quier did, and also song at 
matins, evensong, antems, and procession about the churche 
certen times. He hard W. Holmes preache against religion 
nowe established, calling it a schisme, and, persuading the 
herers from it, offred to absolve them and to reconcile them 
to the Pope ; which he did in certen latin wordes unknown to 
this examinate, blessing them with his hand, as this examinate 
and thei all knelled downe, for he bad them departe which wold 
not be reconsiled and the other to knele. He toke also, one 
day, holy water at John Robson's hand, and holy breade at 
Sir Thomas Matthewe's handes. 



CLXXXYIIL The personal answer op William 

Hardinge. [C. 189.] 

William Hardinge, one of the Minor Canons in the 
Cathedral Church aforesaid. 

He saith that, in the yere, monthes, and certen of the daies 
articulate, this examinate was in the queir within the said church 
at such tyme as William Holmes song mass, and was twyse at 
mattens and once at evensonge ; but he neither said nor songe 
at any theis tymes that he was present in the queir: saing 
further that, yff Cuthbert Nevill hym selflF had not reviled hym 
byfore, sainge he was of wicked lering [so], and also 2 soldgiors 
came to his, this examinate's, chamber, and commandyd hym 
to come to the church, or ells yt wolde be worse with hym, he 
had nott commed ther at all. He was not at Holmes' sermond, 
nor war reconsiled privilye or openly, but refused yt bothe to 

* On the back of a letter inserted between C. 188 b and 189. 



THE REBELLION OF 1569. 159 



Homes and Peirson articulate, nor he dyd not receive holly dubham 
bred or holly bred [«o], nor knoweth not from whenc any books Cathedeai 
or ornaments cam, or what worde of them, ac aliter nescit 
deponere. 

W. Hardingb.^ 



CLXXXIX. Testes producti adversus dominum Johan- 
NEM Browne, unum minorum canonicorum in ecclesia 

CaTHEDRALI DuNELMENSI, AC ETIAM CuRATUM SIVE 

Capellanum db Wytton Gilbert. [C. 191, b.] 

Richard Banckus, one of the minor canons in the Cathe- 
dral Church of Durham, aged 65 years. 

He saith that ther is no other service to be admit but that 
which is expressed in the Boke of Common Praier, set furth by 
the Quene's Majestic. 

He saith that the things in the second article be by the lawes 
of this realme abrogat. 

He saith that the said Sir John Browne knewe all and sin- 
guler the premisses well enough, for he, this ezaminate, haith 
bein one off his fellowes thes 4 yeres last past in the quier. 

He saith that Sir John Browne, articulate, served daily in 
the queir, as this examinate and other ther fellowes dyd, dyvers 
dayes at masse, mattyns, and evensong; and one tyme did 
assiste and minister to Holmes, sainge masse at the aulter; but 
he is not certain whither he went on procession or no ; sainge 
further that the said John Brown went to Staindrop with this 
examinate, and three moo of ther fellowes, where he, the said 
Sir John, was reconsyled with the other ther said fellowes, as 
is declared in ther examinacion thereupon heretofore, where- 
unto this examinate referith hymself. Examined further, 

* A Surrogate in the Consistoiy Court, and Vicar of Hart and Heighington. He 
lived till the year 1584, and by his will ordered his body to be buried in the church 
of Saint Oswald, near his father, bequeathing considerable property for the period 
to " Thomas Kingston, student at Cambridge/' ** To Janet God send us (perhaps a 
fowndling) I give a caldron and a payre of tonges/* His books were three volumes of 
Lyra, valued at 4«. ; a volume of Augustine De Civitate Dei, 2«. ; two books in folio, 
\2d, ; thirty-four other books, one with another, S«. id. 



160 DEPOSITIONS, ETC. 

i^^^^^^ whether he knowith that Sir John Brown shuld have confessed 

in the pulpit in Wytton Gilbert, that he hadd taught and ledd 

his parishioners the wrong way, by the space of xi yeres now 

last paste, wherof he repentyd, wyshinge them to follow the 

same way that he dyd, which words this esaminate hard not, 

but by the common fame and reporte that this examinate haith 

dyvers tymes hard thereof, which, upon conscance thereof, this 

examinate belyvith veryly to be trewe. 

R. B. 

William Blenkinsop and William Smith, two other of 
the said minor canons, agree with Richard Bancus. [C. 192.] 



CXC. The personal answer op Elizabeth Watson. 

[C. 200, b.] 

Elizabeth Watson, wife of William Watson, SO years. 

She saith that, upon Saint Androo day last, this examinate 
came up to the Cathedral Church to se the masse, but the 
throng of people was so moch that she culd nott» and so sett 
downe in the low end of the same church and said her praiers. 
She hard no preiching, nor was shervon.* She saith she used hir 
beads. 

She saith that when she sawe Mr. Swyfft's wyf suster wepe 
she said to hir, " The dyvell wepe with you,'' for the which 
words she, this examinate,' is hardy sorye. 



CXCI. The personal answer of Agnes Nixson. 

[C. 200, b.] 

Agnes Nixson, wife of Gilbert Nixson, of the city of Dur- 
ham, cordiner, aged 50 years. 

She saith that she was one at masse in the cathedrall of 
Durham, and yt was by the commandyd of the officers. She was 
at no preachinge, nor toke holly bread or holly water, nor was 
shorven, but she used her beads. + 

* Shriven. 



THE REBELLION OF 1569. 161 

She saith that she is sorye for the offences that she this exa- Durham 
minate haith maid^ but she saith that she haith hir beads stilly 
of currell^ which she saith she occupyeth nott. 

Signum + Agnbtis Nixson. 



CXCII. The personal answer of Gilbert Nixson. 

[C. 201.] 

Gilbert Nixson, of Durham, cordiner, aged 56 years. 

He saith that he this examinate was commanded by Robert 
Brandshaw, or Henry Farreles, to come to servic at the Cathe- 
dral Church, and after to heare further of the Earle's pleasur ; 
at what tyme this examinate so dyd come to the said church, 
and wold have sein the masse, wher ther was soch a prease of 
people that this deponent culd not come to the sight therof, 
but he hard them syng in the queir at ytt, sainge that he was at 
Holmes^s preaching, which said we were out of the way, and 
that the old servic was the right waye, which the said Holmes 
then preiched of and commendyd, but he hard not his absolu- 
cion. He saith that he used no beads, hard no mattens or 
evensong, but he toke holly wayter. He spoke nothing againste 
the Queue's majestie's religion or any that favored the same. 

He saith that he is no favorer of the Pop's religion, nor 
hynderer of God's worde, or the Queue's proceedings, and is 
sory for that he had a mynde at the tym articulate to have hard 
masse. 

Signum 4 Gilberti Nixson. 



CXCIII. The personal answer of Ralph Stevenson. 

[C. 201.] 

Ralph Stevenson, of Durham, currier, aged 52 years. 

He saith that he was at Plomtre masse, in the coUidge 
church, and was at Holmes' preichinge, but not at mattens nor 
evensong, and that the preicher spoke against the religion re- 
ceyved, and commended the Pope and his religion. He toke 

M 



162 DEPOSITIONS, ETC. 

Durham absoludon of the said preicher, emongest the resydew of the 
people. He toke holly water, but no holly bred, nor was 
shreven. He saith he spoke nothing in dirogacion of the 
Quene^s lawes, or any that favored them. 

He saylh that he is nowe sorye for that he haith doon 
against the Quene's roajestie^s proceedings. 

Signum + Radulphi Stevenson. 



Durham CXCIV. ThE PERSONAL ANSWER OP WiLLIAM HeADLHAM. 

^'- '*"'"»■ [C. 169.] 



LAS. 



William Headlham, curate in the Church of St. Nicholas 
in Durham, aged 65. 

— He dyd, in the Ordinarye^s Visitacion, allowe the Church 
service by setting to his hand, and toke the oothe tochinge the 
Quene's supremecie, and exercised service accordinglie by the 
time articulate, and was in the parish church of St. Nicoless in 
Durham the 10th day of Decembre, beinge Satterday, and 
comming in to the queir he found Sir Robert Peirson sainge of 
masse; whereat he was not contentyd, and tarried not, but 
went his waies : and this examinate was also in the same 
churche, the Sonday next after, at the tymes of morning and 
eaven praier. 

That he was at no other masse, in any place, nor otherwaies 
then he haith predeposed ; and, as for the Sonday prearticulate, 
this examinate said mattyns in Latten, and redd a peic of a 
lesson, and maid holly waiter and holly bread ther, and said 
evensonge also that night in Latten service ; and on the Sat- 
terday at night one William Holmes willed this examinate to 
come to his chaimber on the Place Grein, and after moche per- 
suasion he absolved this examinate in Latten, by auctoritie, 
as he said, from Rowme ; but the form of the words certainly 
he remembrith nott alltogyther; restoring and reconsiling this 
examinate to say service. 



THE REBELLION OF 1569. 163 

He saith that to doo the things he dyd he was not willinge, Durham 
but perswadyd, and threatned to doo ytt. As for the boke he las. 
occupied and said servic^ and mad hoUywater by^ he^ this exa- 
minate^ tair yt in peices and burnte ytt. 

Wyll'm Hedlam Clarke. 

Officium DOMINI contra Willielmum Headlham curatum 
ecclesiee parochialis Divi Nicholai civitatis Dunelmensis. Ad 
comparendum, ut supra. Act Book^ 18 Mar. 1569-70. 

Die horis et loco preedictis comparuerunt Thomas Pentland 
et Willielmus Headlham, presbiteri, qui temerarie reliquerunt 
officia sua in suis ecclesiis inofficiata tempore Paschae ultimo 
elapsee. Judex injunxit poenitentiam dicto Thomas ut culpam 
suam pronunciaret publice, in ecclesia sua parochiali, in crasti- 
num, inter Divinorum solempnia, ac continuavit causam circa 
jura parochialia usque ad proximam synodum, monens eos^em 
ad tunc interessendum. Act Book^ f. 191, 8 Ap. 1570. 

CXCV. The personal answer of Henry Hutcheson.* 

[C. 194.] 

Henry Hutcheson, of the city of Durham, shomaker, 
aged about 50. 

He saith, that day thatHancFawconf died this examinate hard 
masse in St. Nicoles Church in Durham, wher his offic, being 
the segerston ther, moved hym at that tyme ther to be. He 
helpt also to buyld the aulter in the said church e, and he know- 
eth not that one James Croft bair any holly water throwgh the 
parish, nor he this examinate went not with the hand bell to 
byd any man come to saul masse and dirige, or to come to the 
masse at the lait tyme of rebellion. 

Signum -f Henrici Hutcheson, 

* 1570. 18 Ap. Officium domini contra . . . Hutcheson parochise S. Nicholai 
Dunelm. super fabricatione altaris. Act Booh. 

f Hans Fawcon of the city of Durham, goldsmith, aged 70 years, was a witness in a 
quarrel between a man and his wife (C. fol. 98). ** He haith seen and known in 
his centre, at Holston, under the Duke of Steids, soore punishment for them that put 
ther wyfife frome them at theire owne will." 

Hans Fawcon buried, Dec. 6th, 1569. SU Nicholas Reg, 

M 2 



164 DBPOSITIONS^ ETC. 

Durham 
St. Nicho- 

LAS. CXCVI. Thb personal answers of George Foster and 

James Nicoll. [C. 194, b]. 

George Foster, apprentice of William Watson, aged 22 
years. 

He saith that he was at the setting up of the alter in the 
church of St. Nicoless in Duresm, with Henry Hutcheson and 
James Nicoll, and that he was at masse in the Cathedral church 
of Durham, saing that he never knew that James Croft or any 
other went about with anye hoUywaitter. 

George Foster. 

James Nicoll, of Durham, shomaker, aged 40 years. 

He saith that at the pointment of Mr. Alderman he helpt up 
with the aulter, saing that he hard say that holly water shuld 
be caryed abowt the parysh ; but he cannot depose therof but by 
the voce of the people. 

Signum + Jacobi Nicoll. 



CXCVII. The personal answer op Alice Wilkinson. 

[C. 200, b.] 

Alice Wilkinson, widow of Nicholas Wilkinson, aged 36 
years. 

She saith that, about the tyme articulate, she was once 
at masse, but who said she cannott tell; but she willinglye 
used suche reverend jestur therunto. She saith that she occu- 
pied her gaudes as many thowsand dyd, but she hard no 
sermond nether at St. Nicholas, nor in the Cathedral churche. 
She saith that she spoke nothing in dispraise of this religion 
receyved, nor in commendacion of the Pope^s lawe. 

She saith that she is sory for that she haith doon contrary 
the Queue's majestie*s lawes. 

Signum + ALiciiS Wilkinson. 



THE REBELLION OF 1569. 165 

Durham 

CXCVIII. The personal answer of Edward Stout. ®'^'^°®" 

[C. 201, b.] 

Edward Stowt, of Durham, cordiner, aged 50 years. 

He saith he was at[Holmes's preiching, but he culd nott judg 
what he said for thronge and preis of people ; but he went from 
thenc byfore the absolucion. He hard no mattens, evensong, 
or masse, in the tyme articulate, nor toke holly bred or holly 
water, nor was shreven. He spoke nothing against the reUgion 
receyved, or in commendation of the religion that is called the 
Pope^s lawe. 

Signum -f Edwardi Stout. 



CXCIX. The personal answer of Matthew Rutledge. 

[C. 201, b.] 

Matthew Rutledge, of the same, bucher, aged 44 years. 

He saith at the time articulate he went to the church with 
Hans when he was buried, but he came away byfore the masse 
then begain. He hard no masse in any where, toke no holly 
bread nor holly water, hard no mattens nor even song, nor was 
shreven. 

Signum + Math. Rutlbs. 



CC. The personal answer of William Watson. 

[C. 201, b.] 

William Watson, parish clarke of St. Nicholas in Durham, 
aged 45 years. 

He saith that, upon St. Androo day last byfore noon, he, 
this examinate, came to the Cathedral Church to receyv money 
of an obligacion ; and when they began servic he went away 
and came again at after noone concerning the same obligacion; 
and at that tyme he hard the antem.song in the queir of the 
said cathedral church. Mai^, 4 of the Erie's men fett this 



LAS. 



166 DEPOSITIONS^ ETC. 

Durham examinate out of his own house to bury Hans Facon^ for that 
he this deponent was the parish darke ; and being present in the 
church of St. Nicoles^ Holmes the preicher asked thys exami- 
nate whither he was reconsyled^ or wold be or noo^ and he ex- 
pressly refused to be recoiisyled, bycause be thought it was 
against bis consciens and the Queue's lawes ; yett he tarried 
masse ther^ and helpt the said Holmes on with his mess clothes^ 
saing, upon his oth^ he dyd ytt for feir. He saith he bowed 
ther downe of his knees^ but knoked nott, and he toke holly 
water; and for the reste of that article he denieth, sainge that he 
willed 2 boies^ viz., Ja. Crofft and Nich. Grame, to goo abowte 
the parish with holly water. 

WiLL^M Watson. 



Durham CCL The PERSONAL ANSWER OF ROBERT GiLSON, 28 April. 

St. Giles. ^q^ jyg j 

Robert Gilson^ of Gilligait, in the county of Durham, 
surgeon, aged 46 years. 

He saith that yt is trew that the churchwardens ought to 
provide a Bible, a Book of Common Praier, and other church 
books. 

He saith that aulters ought to be distrued, as monuments off 
idolatry and superstitions, in all places. 

He saith that he, this examinate, and William Marley, haith 
bein churchwardons in St. Giell's parish, bitwixt Martlemas 
and Chirstemas, and yett, wher ther was a byble, a bock of 
common praier, long tyme before the said feast of Martle- 
mas, and the aulters was taken downe also byfor the said 
Martlemas. 

He saith that the x day of September last, Robert Come- 
furthe, clerk of St. Giells, cam to Wlm. Marley, this examin- 
ate^s fellow, and told hym that the clarks off St. Nicoless and 
StOswald^s at Durham had bornt their church bookes ; where- 
upon the said Marley cam to this examinate, and tolde this 



THE RRBELLION OF 1569. ' 167 

examinate what the said clarks had doon^ willing hvm to bringe Durham 

" St OiLRs 

furth thers^ that they might bourne them also ; or ells ther houses 
wolde be riped.* And then this deponent brought furthe the 
Bible and 2 Saulters^ and Marley went to the Curat chamber^ 
and brought out from thence the Apologye^ the Boke of Common 
Praier and 2 Homilies^ whereof this examinate saved th'one of 
them, and so the said books was bornt byfore this examinate's 
door by the said Marley and this deponent and 40 others ; but 
none of the said 40 aither praised their doings therein^ or found 
fault therwith. And ther was water put in the stone, wherwith 
the folk sprinkelde themselves therwith. And they 2 also sett 
up one aulter, viz. the hye alter, upon 4 pillors ; and haith this 
day broken the same in many pieces, and ther holly water stone 
allso. And was too sondrye tymes at masse in the oath, church, 
and also was at Wlm. Hoolmes sermond on the said church, 
and toke his absolucion under Pope Pius name, as other dyd. 

He saith he wold be a favorer of God word, not of the Pop's 
reUgion. Robert Gylson* 



CCII. The personal answer op William Merley. 

[C.172.] 

William Merley, laborer, aged 40 years. 

He saith that he, this examinate, comyng frome the merkett, 
Robert Cornefurthe, the clerke of S* Giells, cam to this deponent, 
and told hym that ther was a strait commaundement commed for 
burninge the books and so furthe. Concerning the bookes and 
the burning of them he aggreith with Gilson, sainge further, by 
virtue of his ooth, that he wolde nott have burnt them but for 
feir of his lyffe. And touchinge the setting up of the awlter 
stone and the hallywaiter stone, and also the breaking and defac- 
inge of them, he agreeth with the said Gilson ; confessinge that 
he set upp the hallywater stone, sainge he, this deponent, hard 
one mess, and also harde the said Holmes preichinge, and toke 
his absolucion. 

He saith that he knowledgith his fault and is sory for ytt. 

Signum -h Willielmi Merley. 

* Ransacked. 



DUBHAM 

St. Giles. 



168 DEPOSITIONS^ ETC. 



CCIII. The personal answer of Robert Cornefurth. 

[C. 183.] 

Robert Cornefurth, of Gilligait, tanner, aged 46 years. 

He saith he, this examinate, was at Wl. Holmes masse, in 
the Cathedral Churche of Durham, but he was nott at his 
sermond : he used no beads ; he toke holly waiter in the said 
Cathedral Church, but not otherwhere: He was not at the 
makinge of the alter in his parish S^ Giells churc\|, nor at the 
takinge downe of the same. And concerninge the books he 
saith that, as he went over the Place gren, the said Holmes and 
Mr. Nevill cauld this examinate to them, and gave him com- 
mandement that he shuld chardge the churchwardens to borne 
their bookes. He saith that he hard yt reportyd that S*" Olyver 
maid holly waiter and holly bread, but whither he said any 
latten servic or no he cannott depose. 

He saith that he dyd the offence byfor confessed againste his 
will, and is sory therefore, -h 



CCIV. Confession. [Swift's Book, f. 112, b.] 

Dearly beloved, whereas, by the lawes of this Realme, ther is 
a most pure order of serving God set furthe, to the gret avance- 
ment of Gode*s glory, and singuler comforthe of all Christen 
people, we, not having the feare of God, or any lawe, before our 
eies, but by speciall mocion of the divell, among other late 
rebelliouse actes,* have, as it were fighting with God and all 
good order, most wickedly tome and destroied diverse churche 
bokes, madlye meaning therby to overthrowe the knowleg of 
God among men, and to bring horrible damnation upon our 
selves and all others ; and nowe, wheras the Queue majestic 
hath given us life and our Ordinary occasion to amend ourmis- 
dedes, we here declare our selves before you to be most hertely 
sory for our develishe doinges, most humbly desiring God to 

* Doinffes placed above, aud actet underlined. 



THE REBELLION OF 1569. 169 

give us trewe repentance for our contemptes^ negligences^ and Durham 
ignorances, against his Divine Majesty, whom specially and 
most grevously [we] have offended ; we also desire the Quene's 
majestic, against whose godly procedinges we have unnaturally 
rebelled and trespassed, to forgeve us. And, wher as by our 
evill example we have given an occasion to do the like faultes, 
to the dishonour of God, the Queue's majestie's offence, and 
your slaunder, being your neighbours, we penitently require 
you, not only to let our punishment be an example for you all, 
to avoide the like enormity, but also to pray with us and for us, 
as Christ has taught us, that knoweth best all our necessities 
and miseries, saying, Our Father, &c. 

1570. 14 Apr. Officium domini contra dominum Oliverum 
Eshe, presbiterum, curatum ecclesiee parochialis Sancti Egidii 
Dunelm. Qui tunc et ibidem comparuit personaliter ac fatetur 
se tempore Paschali ultimo elapso ministrasse sacramentum et 
communionem Domini parochianis suis illicito pane, ac more 
vetito, contra jura hujus Regni Anglice. {Act Book, f. 192.) 

1570. 18 Apr. Officium domini contra Robertum Gilson 
et Willielmum Marley parochiae S. Egidii Dunelm. qui, legitime 
vocati per Johannem Brice apparitorem, comparuerunt, ac 
fatebantur quod igne cremaverunt, tempore rebellionis nuper 
commissee, quosdam libros, ad ecclesiam parochialem preedictam 
pertuientes, unam Bibliam, Apologiam, ac Salterium Davidis. 
Judex monuit eosdem ad comparendum in diem veneris prox. 
.{Act Book, {. 193.) 



CCV. The personal answer of William Wright, one Durham 
OF the Churchwardens in the Church of Saint Os- ^t. o&- 

WALQ S. 

wald's, Durham. [C. 173]. 

William Wright, of Elvett, tynker, aged 40 years. 

He saith that ther is no other servic for any subject to use. 



170 DEPOSITIONS, ETC. 

DuEHAM or her, but that which is sett furth in the Gluene's Majestie's 

wALD's. Boke of Common Praier, nether in cathedral church, chappell, 

or any otherweer within this realme : and that all latten service, 

the bushop of Rome's auctoritye, books, beads, alters, and th'or- 

naments of the church, ought to be abolished and defaced^ as 

supersticious things^ tendyng to idolatrye. 

He saith that he^ this examinate, and Robert Tedcastel com- 

mandyd Anth. Cootts and Robert Sklaitor to sett up one alter 

in the church of Saint Oswald's, at the commandement of 

Cuthbert Nevell and William Holmes, on the Place Grein, and 

the holly water stone wherein ther was holly waiter, and men 

sprinkled the same upon them ; but who maid holly water he 

cannott depose. He hard masse one in the cathedral church, 

upon Saint Androo daye ; he hard parte of the sermond that 

Holmes maid, and toke his absolucion, commendyd the old 

servic, and in dispraise of this service sett furth by the Quene's 

Majestie. He saith also that he, this examinate, and Robert 

Tedcastell, and Th. Wilkinson brought doon the books to the 

bridge end, viz., a Bible, the Booke of the Comon Praier, 

the Appologe, the Homilies, all which was byrnt at the brig 
ende. 

He saith that his fault by him confessed he doeth acknow- 
ledge, and ys sory for the same. + 



CCVI. The personal answer of Robert Tedcastell. 

Robert Tedcastell, another of the churchwardens of the 
parish of Saint Oswald, tailyer, aged 40 years, agrees with the 
above William Wright in every point of his answer, -f 



CCVII. The personal answer of Anthony Coots. 

[C. 173, b.] 

Anthony Coots, of Durham, sklaitor, aged 30 years. . 
He saith, that, about the tyme articulate, he and Robert 
Sklaitor, by the help of Priorman and Janet Maltbye, Sir 



THE REBELLION OF 15f>9. 171 

Walter sett up the alter stone in Elvet churche, which was Durham 
broken in thre and underlaid with a peic of tymber, by the wIld^s! 
comandement stratly gyven by William Wright, the church- 
warden ther, in the Quene's Majestie's name, who was paid for 
ther work by Robert Tedcastell and the said Robert Sklaitor 5 
and this examinate toke downe the said aulter again. Exa- 
mined upon the hallywater fatt, he saith it was hyd in a corner 
of the said churche, covered with earth, which this examinate 
sett up. He was one at masse in the cathedral church, and 
hard Holmes preach, but what he said he cannott tell; ac 
ultra, &c. 

He saithe he is sory for his faulte, and asketh God mercy 
therfor. -f 



CCVIII. The personal answer op Robert Sklaitor. 

[C. 1 73 b.] 

Robert Sklaitor, of Elvet, walker, aged 36 years. 
Agreeing with Anthony Coots, he askeith God and the quene 
mercy and forgivenes, confessing his faults, -f 



CCIX. The^ personal answer of Simon Ayer. [C. 196 b.] 

Simon Ayer, of the vill of Shyncklyflfe, one of the church- 
wardens of the Church of St. Oswald, in Durham, aged 40 
years. 

He saith that he, this examinate, was not at the buildyng or 
setting up of the aulter articulate, nor at any tyme gave any 
consent or commandement for the makinge of the same, hiered 
no laborer, or paid any waidge to any person that wrought 
therat. Mary, he saith that, commyng by chanch into the 
church of St. Oswald's, the said Coots articulate and other 
laborers was lyfting up the holly water ston, and he, this exami- 
nate, gave them a lyifte at the same ; but he toke no hollybred 
nor hoUywater, nor hard • any sermond aither in the collidge 
church of Durham or in the said St. Oswald Church, for he. 



172 DEPOSITIONS, ETC* 

Durham this examinate, was at the tymes in the castell by the com- 
wALD's. mandement of Mr. Cuthbert Nevill : sainge farther, that he, 
this deponent, being at Sherbom house the first day that any 
masse was done in the cathedrall church of Durham, and was 
commandyd by Mr. Cuthbert Nevill to come to the said masse ; 
and so this deponent dyd, amongest many other, but never 
hard any moo masses or church servic in latten all the tyme 
articulate. 

Mary he saith, he, this examinate, haith bein a faicter against 
his will in spedall comyng to the said masse, and also in help- 
ing to lift the holly water stone ; for the which he is sory, and 
praieth for mercy and the Quene's Majestie^s pardon. 

Symount Ayr. 



[Act Book, f. 190.] 

1569-70, 18 Mar. Officium domini contra dominum 
Thomam Pentland, vicarium ecclesiee parochialis Sancti Os- 
waldi, eo quod non celebravit divina in ecclesia sua parochiali 
die paschse ultimo elapso. Qui comparuit ; quem judex monuit 
ad interessendum in die sabbati proximo. 



DuEHAM CCX. The personal answer of Thomas Wayinman. 

St. Mar- 

GABEI^S. 

Thomas Wayinman, of the Wharrell-hill, near Durham, 
yoman, aged 60 years. 

Super 1™°, 2^0, 3®, ex. fatetur esse veros. 

Super 4^, he saith, that, about the feast of our Ladye's day 
last past, Thomas Richmond came to this examinate's owne 
dwelling house, and required this deponent to leid one fother of 
stones to buyld one alter, and so at the last he dyd, for his 
payment Sd.y at the said Th. Richmond request; which also 
paid hym, this examinate, the said 8d. He also occupied ten 



THE REBELLION OF 1569. l73 

gawdies or beids in the Church of Sanct Margaret's, wher the ^^^^ 
said Richmond promised this examinate and others to have qIbet's. 
masse the morro next after, sainge that one of his neighbours 
gave this deponent one peic of hollybred, which he now remem- 
bred was his owne wyffe, and eat the same. He also'helpt to 
lay up the aulter ston, and was present at one Holmes his 
sermond in the Cathedral Churche of Durham ; who said all 
church servic that was used in England was nott good, but 
herycie ; saing, further, that they were nott wordye to her the 
worde of God unlesse they were reconsylt ; and therupon all 
the people knelde downe, and being bairhed was absolved, and 
also hard masse ther the same daye. ' 

Super 5*0, he submittith hymself to the lawes of th'realme, 
and is sory for his doinge in the premises, wherin he saith he 
must neids confes hym self a faulter. -f 

CCXI. The personal answer of Thomas Richmond, 

ONE OF THE CHURCHWARDENS OF St. MarGAREt's, 

Durham. [C. 179.] 

Thomas Richmond, carpenter, aged 60 years. 

Super imo^ 2^0^ 3*» fatetur, &c. 

Super 4^0, he saith that he, this examinate, saith and confes- 
seth that he procured one aulter to be maid and sett up in the 
church of St. Margarett's, and tok a throwgh stone out of th' 
payment of the church floor, and gott lyme in the Cathedral 
church of Durham to use about the said alter, which this exa- 
minate, and William Lasingby his man, brought frome thence of 
ther backs, and appointed Thomas Wayinman to bring stones 
thereto, and Skorfeild to make the same ; and further that he, 
this examinate, was one at masse in the said Cath. Church, but 
he was at no sermond, toke no beids, was not shreven, used no 
holliwater nor holly bread. He saith that the hoUywater ston 
also was sett up by this examinate and Skorfeild, and by them ' 
also taken doon ; sainge that both the said through stone and 
the hollywater stone ar boath in the said church undefaced ; 
the hollywater ston turned doon in the belfray, and th'other 
layd downe wher the aulter was. 



174 DBP08ITT0NS, ETC. 

Durham Super 5^, he confessith the premises in this his examinacion 

OABBT'8. to be trewe, and done and comyttyd by this examinate, upon 

the speciall commandement of Mr. Cuthbert NevelU maid at 

the proclamacion, which he for feir obeyed, and not for any 

love of masse and mattens. + 



CCXII. The personal answer of John Skortfielde. 

[C. 194, b.] . 

John Skortfeild, of Durham, mayson, aged 40 years. 

He saith he helpt Tho. Richmond and his man Lasonby, by 
the said Tho. commandement, to sett up the aulter in St. Mar- 
garett's churche in Durham. He saith that he came to the 
Cathedral Church of Durham when the masse was, but he hard 
non, ther was such a concorsse of people bytwixt hym, this 
examinate, and the preist. He helpt the said Th. up with 
the hoUywater stone, -f 



WiTTON CCXIIl. The Examination of Thomas Hornebie of 

Gilbert. WiTTON GiLBERT. [C. 189, b.] 

He saithe that he, this examinate, with diverse of the parishe, 
was in the chapell of Witton Gilbert of a sondaye or holie daye 
in December last past, at morning prayer, at what tyme he, 
this examinate, herd Sir John Browne, curat ther, saye openlie 
to his parishioners after this sorte : " I halve thes eleven yeres 
taught you the wrong way in suche learning as is against my 
own soule and yours bothe, and I am sorie and aske God mer- 
cie therfore, and yow my parishoners, and do here renounce 
my leving before you all ; and whersoever you meit me, in town 
or feld, taike me as a strainger and none of your curat.^* 

Signum -f Thom^ Hornebie. 



THB REBELLION OF 1569. 175 

CCXIV. The Examination of John Tompson of the 

SAME. [C. 189, b.] 

Concordat cum preeconteste sue, Thoma Hornebie, saving 
that the said Sir John Browne said, " when I was doing service 
here among yow I left furthe that unredd, or taught unto yow 
which I thought was not good, and took that which was good." 

Signum -f Johannis Tompson. 



WiTTON , 

Gilbert. 



CCXV. The personal answers op the Churchw^ardens pittington 

of Pyttington. [C. 178, b.] 

William Rawling, of Sherborn, husbandman, aged 58 
years. 

Super primo articulo dicit, that ther is no other servic alow- 
able then is articulate, either to be said or harde. 

Super 2^^, the things articulate ar abrogat by the lawes of this 
realme. 

Super 3**, he saith that he knewe all such as ar articulate to 
be abrogate by auctoritie aforesaid, within the parish church of 
Pyttington. 

Super 4to, he saith that, about the tyme articulate, he, this 
examinate, Wylliam Wytfeild, Gilbert Dixon, John Grein, Ed- 
ward Gillyrye, and Th. Scott, set up one alter in the Church of 
Pyttington, and the hallywater stoon also ther ; and, also, the 
same daies, monethes, and yere articulate, this examinate was at 
procession after the crose in the Cath. Church of Durham, and 
sawe the prest at masse ther, and thought they sawng out of 
tewne. And as for beads, hallywater, or hally bred, he used 
none, nor hard Holmes his sermond, nor otherwaies dyd no 
speak against this relygion receyved, or against the popish doc- 
trine that the rebells used. And as for the said alter and hally- 
water stone, this examinate and Gilbert Dixson, articulate, toke 



176 DEPOSITIONS, BTC. 

PiTTiNOTON them doon, and laid them wher byfore they had bein; the 
alter stone upon the kirk flore^ wher now it is again, and the 
hallywater fatt in the bellhouse laid again, yett haith unde- 
faced. And, as for ther bookes, John Wall, Anthony Hall, and 
one Labome, distroyed them. 

Super 5% he saith, that of truith he dyd the things by him 
confessed, and is sory for the same ; sainge that the said Gil- 
bert Dixon brought worde frome Christopher Morland upon 
such commandements as he had receyved from Mr. Cuthbert 
Nevill, upon payn of hanginge, to doo it, which this deponent 
and his fellowes dyd. 

Wylliam Rawleing. 

Christofeb Whitfeild, of the same, husbandman, aged 
about 40 years, agrees with Rawlinge* -f 

Th. Skott, parish clerk there, aged about 24 years, agrees 
with Rawlinge. Wlm. Rawlinge. 

Thomas Skott. 

CCXVI. The personal answer of Edward Gillery. 

[C. 194.] 

Edward Gillery of Pyttington, cowper, aged 50 years. 

He saith that, in tyme of the rebellion, this examinate was in 
Kirke Pyttington towne, working with Christofer Morland, and 
upon occasion to staye the vicar cowe, that one old wyf had the 
mylk of her, came where the churchwardens and one Hall and 
Wall of Durham was ; at what tyme this deponent and Gilbert 
Dixson was hyered by the churchwardens to make up one alter; 
whereupon this examinate so dyd, and received 4d. for his 
labour at the said churchwardens hands. He also helpt to sett 
up the holly water stone. Signum -f Ed. Gillery. 

CCXVII. The personal answer of Gilbert Dixson. 

[C. 194.] 

Gilbert Dixson of Sherborn, husbandman, aged 40 years. 



THE RBBSLLION OF 1569. 177 

He saidi he helpt to sett up the alter ther by the churchwar* PiniNOTON 
dens' appointment, which paid hym his waidges, sainge also 
that he toke down both the aulter stone downe, which is hid 
in the qttier, and the holly water stone hyd in the bell house. 

Signum + 6i;^BBRTi Dixson. 



CCXVIII. The personal answer of Elizabeth Ruttbr. bkavck- 

[C. 190,b.] '^"• 

Elizabeth Ruttbr, wife of Henry Rutter, of Durham, 
puderer. * 

She saith that she was delyverd in El vet, in the parish of 
Saint Oswald's in Durham, of a woman child, the 15th daye of 
Noyember> being the morrow after the Rebells rose. 

She saith that hir childe, being bom the twesday articulate^ 
yt lay in hir house unchristened from that day to the friday 
fortheneth next after ; at which tyme one Agnes Pope the 
meddwyff, carried the said childe to Brancepeth, at the request 
of this examinate, wher she belyvith yt was christened by the 
preist Sir Robert, the curat ther. 

She saith that she beliyeth that the holly sacrement of 
baptym doith belonge to children, and she is not of the opinipn 
of any anibaptism that holdith to the contrary. 

Signum 4- Eliz. Rutter, 

CCXIX. The personal answer of Henry Rutter. 

[C. 191.] 

Henry Rutter, husband of the said Elizabeth, aged about 
42 years. 

He saith that he, this examinate, was at home in Elvet, wher 
he dwellith, at the birth of his child articulate, which was borne 
upon a tewsday, the morrow after the Earles rose, and at that 
present tyme this examinate was sent for to John Byers, to 
wait upon his lorde and master, the Earle of Westmorland, and 

n 



1 78 DBPOBITIONBy JBTC. 

BA4NGB- to be with his lordship the morrow next after, being Weddens- 
day, at Darlington. Whereupon, by virtue of his ooth, he 
saith that he dyd send worde to George Rutter, this ezaminate^s 
brother, to provide godfather and godmothers for the said 
childe ; which, as this examinate by report haith harde of the 
said SUizabeth his wyffe, and dame Paip, that the said Geoi^ 
sent worde to the said Elizabeth that he wold christen the same 
hym selff, yf he could [not] gytt a priest. And yt was also told 
this examinate that Hew Freind's wyff promised to be the god- 
mother theroff, ac ultra nesdt deponere, for he rode forward 
with his said lord and master, but he thinks the child, by such 
report as cam to the examinate at Burrowbridg, by John Gars- 
tall, that his said child was christened at Brancepith, at what 
certain day this examinate cannott depose ; but he is certain by 
John Garstall messyadge yt was christened within thre weiks 
after the birth therof. Examined by whom, he cannot depose, 
but by the reporte of John Garstall and the said myddwyff, 
which tolde this deponent that Sir Robert Peirson, curat ther, 
christened the said child, by my Lady Westmorland commande- 
ment, for that the child was weike and most lyke to dye* 
Examined whether the said childe was caried to the church of 
St* Oswald at any tyme, or that any of this deponent's freinds 
send or spoke with the vicar ther, to christen the said child, or 
no, he saith he cannot depose theroff, nor beliveth the resydew 
of that article to be trewe. 

He beliveth the 5th article not to be trewe, for he this 
examinate is not of the op3^ion that is articulate, for that he 
wold not have bein so carefuU for the christening of the said 
his child, nor would have procured or sent to his said brother 
Robert Tedcastell, and Hewgh Freind's wyffe, to help to christen 
the same. 

Signum H. R. Hbnrici Rutter. 



THE REBELLION OF 1569. 179 

CCXX. The personal answer op James Lockye. Auckiand 

. Sx. An- 

[C. 190, b.] DEBW. 

James Lockye, of Bushop Awkland, sklaitor, aged 50 years. 

He saith that, after William Sklaitor, of Eldon, had commed 
fyve or sex tymes to this examinate to hyre hym to make up 
the alter in the church of Awkland, articulate, he saith, at the 
last, for feir of trouble at the comming home of the Earles, this 
examinate maid and sett up the aulter, with the help of Symon 
Croft and Duffield, as laborers at labores at the same, in the 
presence of the said Sklaytor, which also helpt up with the 
same. 

CCXXI. The personal answer op Simon Cropt. 

[C. 190, b.] 

Simon Croft, of Sowthkirk, near the said Awkland, tanner, 
aged 50 years. 

He saith that William Sklaytor, articulate, hyerd this exami- 
nate as a laborer to help up with the said alterston^ at the 
which alter John Stevenson, Richard Chamber of Wyndleston, 
coming to the church with a corse, helpt up also with the said 
alterston. 

CCXXII, The persoi^al answer op Robert Dowghat. 

Robert Dowghat, of the Deanry, near South Kirk afore- 
said, laborer, aged 46 years* , 

He saith that he, this examinate, was desyred by the said 
James Lockye ^to helpe hym at the setting up of the i^aid alter* 



CCXXIII. The personal answer op William Sklaitor. 

[C. 190, b.] 

William Sklaitor, of Eldon, one of the churchwardens 
of the said parish, husbandman, aged 60 years. 

N 2 



180 BBP08ITION8, ETC. . 

AocKLAMD He sfdth that he, this ezaminate. and one Robert Cornefurth, 

St Am- 

of Biers Grein, commandyd the said Sklaitor to build the said 
alter ; and that one John Ldlbom of Shildon teir ther byble^ 
distrewed the communion table^ that the report that this ex- 
aminate haith hard ; and that he, this examinate^ was present 
at the setting up of the hallywater stone, which stood loose and 
unlymed, and that the alterston was laid wher they, this ex- 
aminateand his fellowes, found ytt ; and for the holly waterston, 
wher yt is nowe he cannot depose. 



CCXXIV. The personal answer op John Lilbosn. 

[C. 193, b,] 

John Lilborn, of Childon, gentleman, aged 31 years. 
He saith, and confesseth, that he, this examinate, rent the 
byble in peiees, being within the church of Saint Androw Awk- 
land, and is hardy sory therfor, and haith bought a new bible 
againe at his own chardg; and further toke 2 boords of the 
communion table at that instanc, and throw them under fott. 

Signum + JoHANNis Lylbobne* 



CCXXV. The pcrsonal answer os Righarb Chaumber. 

Richard Chaumber, of Wyndleston, husbandman. 

He denieth that he helpt up with the Aulter Stone, saing 
that he, being in his parish church, he hard Sir Edward the 
pneist ther say openly in the pulpit that he hadd taught them 
with wronge* + . 

1570, 8 May. Judex monuit Sklaitor de Eldon ad interes- 
sendum et certificandum super mandatis judicis circa poeniten- 
tiam peragendum, ad solvendum foeda, and to breake the alter 
ston and the hallywater fatt. Act Book, 204. 



THB REBELLION OP 1569. ^ 18 1 

AucKLilfb 
St. Hblbit. 

CCXXVL William Cooke^ of Bushop Aukland, laborer^ 

aged 40 years. [C. 193, b.] 
He saith that, in the lait rebellion tyme, this examinate was 
in Saint Elyn Awkland Church, going towerd Staindrop, and 
ther he strove with other soldiers about the tering of the books 
articulate, wherof he this deponent tere part of them with his 
hands and teithe. 

Signum + Willielmi Cooke* 



CCXXVII. EXAMINACIO JOHANNIS BuRNOP, VILLA HELENiK 
SANCTJS AWCKLAND, PRODUCT! EX PARTE OPFICil CONTRA 
JOHANNAM £dEN, XJXORBli ROBERTI EdBN 6ENEROSI, 
ATATIS 40 ANNORUM. [C. 203.] 

Dicit that, 2 Sunday in Advent to his remembraunc, when 
was wont to be song in the church Gaudete in Domino, on Georg 
White, preist, cam into the church of St. Helen Awkland, wher 
he said mass, at whos procurement this examinate can not say ; 
but streight, upon his commyng into the church, he went into 
the pulpit, wher, when he had preiched against the stait of 
religion established in this realme, he willed them to revert to 
the church of Roome ; and therupon he red absolucion in the 
Pophis nayme to all the people, amongest which the sayd Mestres 
Eden was one then thei% present, and hard the sayme sermon, 
and afterward hard the said Georg Whit say mass ther, at 
which the said Mestres Eden was present from the begynnyng 
to the end3^g, sitting in the quere, usyng such reverend gestur 
as was commonly used at masse ; but befor the said Sir Georg 
went to masse he receyved the said Mestres Eden into the church 
by the hand, as the custom was, and sprinkled holy water upon 
byr, and so lykewyss when mass was doon the same Jane Eden 
receyved holy brede at his hand* 

Signum + Johannis Burnope. 
Rob. Swift. 



182 . DSP08ITI0NS, ETC. 

AUCKLAITD 

CCXXVIII. Thomas Hodgson, of DageiU, within the 
parish of St. Helen's, husbandman, aged 40 years. [C. 203, b.] 
, He cannot deposse to the matter conteined in that article 
(the 4th), for he, this examinate, kept the coUe pit at Carter- 
tbome both a month befor and a fortnyght after, and com not 
into the churche duryng the tyme aforesayd nor the towne. 

Signum + Thouje Hodgson. 



CCXXIX. Raipus Hodgson, of Tofthill, husbandman. 

This examinate was at York with my L. Eury all the tyme 
that the Erles lay at Bamardcastell, at which tym the sayd Syr 
Georg Whyt sayd mass at Bamardcastell. 

Signum + Radulphi Hodgson. 



CCXXX. Ralph Patonbon, of Awkland Saint Helene, 
husbandman, aged about 48 years. 

He did see Sir George White in the churche of Saynte Helen 
Awkland, that Sondaye, where he said mass, and was in the 
pulpit ; but what he said in the pulpit he can not tell ; and Sir 
George Whyte maid that daye holy brede and holy water ; and 
that Mastres Jayn Eden was in the quere of the said churche, 
and sit upon her kneis the masse tyme ; but he neither did see 
her receve holy brede nor holy water, nor be churched. 



CCXXXI. Richard Dantell, of Wodhouses, yoman, aged 
about 30 years. 

Respondet that, upon a Sonday in Advent last past, he cam 
into the churche of Saynt Helene Awkland, and fownde Sir 
George Whyte in the pulpit; at which tyme he herd him saye 
that the people had lyved wrong, and willed them to beleve in 
the masse ; and further he can not remember of his sainges ; 
and that Mastres Jayn Eden was in the churche that tyme, but 
whether she was churched then, or confessed, or toke any holye 
brede or holy water, he can not depose, for he did not see ; but 



/» 



THB RBBBLLION OF 1569. 183 



he sawc Sir George White say masse that day, and Mastres Aucm-vw 
Eden was in the quere ther, syttinge upon hir knes, in the tyme 
of the masse. 

Rychard Danntbll. 



CCXXXII. Hbnry Oarmonswayb, of West Awklande, 
husbandman^ aged about 40 years. 

He did see Sir Georg White in the churche the day articu- 
late^ and sawe him at masse and in the pulpit, where he herd 
hym saye that the people had ben ledde wronge, and this 
examinate was then present ; but whether Mastres Eden was at 
the tyme he was in the pulpit he can not tell, for it was lait or 
she cam in, but she cam byfore masse was doon, and did sit in 
the quere, and there the preist made holy brede and holy water; 
and he woote not whether Mastres Eden toke any holy brede 
or holy water, and whether she was then churched or no he can 
not tell. + 



CCXXXIII. ExAMiNACio Lancbloti Car^ contra Janam 

HooTON, alias Edbn. 

Lancblot Carr, of West Awkland, yoman. 

Sir George Whyte was that daye articulate in the churche of 
Saynt Helene Awkland, but by whois procurement he can not 
depose; and he did see the same Sir George Whyte mete Mastres 
Eden at the churche doore, and tooke hir by the hand, and cast 
holy water upon hir, but whether she hard his sermon or not 
he remembreth not; and, as he remembrithe. Sir George 
Wliyte receyed Mastres Eden into the churche byfore that he 
said masse, whereat she was in the churche or in the quere. 

+ 

CCXXXIV. Thb pbrsonal answbr of Cuthbbrt Gubion, 

OF Sbdgfibld. [C. 180, b.] 

Cuthbbrt Gubion^ of Sedgfeild, laborer^ aged 72 years* 



184 DKPOSITIONSj STC. 

•fM>- Super lo^ 2^, et B^ fittetur, &c. 

Super 4^, he saith that he hard not masse articulate, nor toke 
holly bred nor holly waiter, but he, this examinate, helpt to cary 
off the parson stan and his lyme to buyld an aulter, which he 
was hired to do, and dyd, at the comandement of Roland Hixson, 
churchwarden; which alter was thruste downe by the Quene's 
soldgiers, and the stones and morter caried out by Robert 
Walker, who also layd the aulter stone down, and coverd the 
same with earthe; and that the hollywater stone was, and is, 
hyd in the doonghill off William Clarke by Roland Hixson and 
the mayson, churchwardens: otherwaies to that article he cannott 
depose. 

Super 5^, he bel3n^th that article not to be trewe, but only to 
things by hym confessed* 4- 



CCXXXV. The personal answbb op Thomas Ricusedsokt. 

[C. 180, b.] 

Thomas Richardson, de eadem, laborer, aged 60 years. 

Super 1% 2^, et 3^, concordat cum Gubion. 

Super 4^, he saith and agrith with Qubion in all things, save 
onlye that this examinate and Harborn was the cheiffe workmen, 
and Gubion, Walker, was the laborers ; saing he hard nor saw 
mass, nor was present at the taking down of the said aulter ; 
used no beads, nor tok hoUywaiter or hoUybred. 

Super 5^, concordat cum Gubion. + 



CCXXXVI. The personal answer op Robert Walker. 

[C, 181.] 

Robert Walker^ of the same, laborer, of the age of 50 
years. 

Super lo, 2*% et S^, fatetur, &c. esse vera. 

Super 4^, he saith that Gubion and this deponent was laborer 
at one alter that was buylded ther, and that Christofer Harborn 
and Thomas Richardson was the cheiff workmen ; sainge that 



THE REBELLION OF 1569. 185 

the Quene's soldyjors cast down the alter ston, and this exami- SBi>oBr 
nate and his boy caried out the rubbish, and hyd the alter 
aton, by the commandement of Rohtnd Hixson and John 
Newton ; and that he help to sett up the bollye waiter stone 
which was taken out John Potter garth, but nowe he knoweth 
not where yt is. 

Super quinto^ he saith he was a fauter, as is abovesaid, and 
no otherwaies. -H 



CCXXXVII. The personal answer op Christopher 

Hartborn. [C. 181.] 

Christopher Hartborn, of the same, laborer, of the age 
of 40 years. 

Super 4^*^, he saith that he, this examinate, and Th. Richard- 
son, was hierd, commandyd, and sett awork, by Rol. Hyxson, to 
make the alter articulate, and that Gubion and Walker, his pre- 
contest^ was the laborers at the said alter. All other things 
conteyned in that article he denyeth utterly, -f- 



CCXXXVIII. The personal answer of John Newton, 

Parish Clerk. [C. 181.] 

John Newton, of the same, parish derk, husbandman, of 
the age of 58 years. 

Super 4^, he saith that he, this examinate, was present in 
the church of Sedgefield when the workmen and laborers, byfor 
examined, had ther work redye, and was lyfiting up the aulter 
stone; and in ther so doinge, sodenly thei cauld of this ex- 
aminate for his helpe, sainge, '^ Te passe not of the maiming 
of us.'' Whereupon, this deponent came to them, evon them, 
and helpt to gyve the said workmen and laborers a lySt at the 
said aulter ston, at the laing on of the same ; saing the soilgiers 
afterward cast ytt doun, which was hyd with rubbish and layd low 
in the presence of this examinate, Roland Hixson, and Wal- 



186 OSP0SIT10N8, KTC. 

Sbdok. kenon^ and by Robert Walkor.and that ther wasto the 

nomber of 80 persons that drewe the said stone with ropes out 
of Gibson Garth ; but this examinate knoweth nor can name 
any one of them. Also he, this examinate^ came to masse, 
which one Richard Hartbnm said, the rij. of December, in the 
church of Sedgefield, and kneild and used reverence therto : he 
used no beads, nother toke hollywater nor holly bread. And as 
for the hollywater stone it came out of Potter Garth to the 
church ; and this examinate dyd se the setting up of the same, 
and was caried out of the church and church yurd by Roland 
Hixson and one other whom he knoweth not ; sainge that this 
examinate brought water in a skeill to be maid in holly water, 
and the said Hixson browghte bread also then for holly breade. 
He hard also Richard Hartbom sermon in the said church, 
sainge the doctrine of England was nowght, and that this Realm 
was cutt oflf firome aU other Nacions ; but whither he gave any 
open absolucion to the people or nott, this examinate cannot 
depose. And as for the bokes, he herjrng tliat books was bomt 
at dyvers places, this examinate delyver all the books to the said 
Roland Hixson the churchwarden, but the Byble and 2® Salters; 
but when the Books was first bomt, after what soort they were 
bomt, or by whom, he cannott depose ; for this examinate was 
then in his bedd. Mary, at the latter bominge of the books this 
examinate was at buminge of the 2" Salters, and bomt one old 
boke of his owne to save the Bible, which therby is yet, the said 
Byble, savyd ; and further he cannott depose. 

To the 5th article he confessith this his examinacion to be 
trewe, and is sory for his faulte ; and farther, that article he 
belyveth nott to be trewe. + 



CCXXXIX. The personal answer of Richard Fleit- 

HAM. [C. 182. b.] 

Richard Fleitham, of Sedgefield, husbandman, aged 
36 years. 

He saith he hard no mtose used, no bread tok, no holljnirater 
and hoUybread, nor meddled not with the alter, aither makinge 



THE RBBKLLION OF 156*9. 187 

and takinge doon. And^ for the books^ he saith that passing ^^^^ 
throwgh the towne streit he mett with • Brian Headlham^ to 
whom^ when this examinate tolde that he went down to Roland 
Hixson house, the said Brian wylled hym to bydd Hixson send 
tip the church books^ and he might bom the books byfore he 
went to Darlington^ which messaidg this esaminate dyd to the 
toid in his bedd ; but what the said Roland and other dyd with 
the books^ or at the horning* of them^ he cannott depose ; how- 
beyt yeisterday this examinate hard Isabell Gulling and Mar* 
garett Snawdon told this examinate and John Johnson at the 
crosse^ that Roland Hixson^ seinge the flames of the books 
fleinge np^ said^ '^ Lowe^ wher the Homilies flees to the devyll.'^ 
He hard no prechinge, nor came in the church at the tyme of 
rebellion : and further he cannott depose to that 4th article ; 
saing further^ by virtue of his ooth^ that he gave no commanded 
ment to the said Roland Hixson for the settinge up of the said 
altfer; 

He saith that he haith ben of lait an offender in the tvme of 
rebellion pretended against the Quene's procedings in reli^oii, 
wherefor he is very sorye ; and otherwaies to that article he 
deposith nott. + 



CCXL* The personal answer of Roland Hixson. 

[C, 183.] 

Roland Hixson^ of Sedgfielde^ husbandman^ aged 50 years. 

He saith that> abotit the tyme articulate^ he^ this examinate, 
helpde Cuthbert Gulling and Christofer Hartbum, Thomas 
Richardson, and Robert Walker to make up the high alter in the 
church of Sedgefielde, being compelled by Lancelott Bulman, 
Brian Headlham/and Richard Fleitham; and he saith that, of 
one hoUyday after service the parish mett to gyther and con- 
sultyd to fett in the anlter stone and hallywaiter ston ; where- 
upon about 30 persons helpt to drawe with ropes the said alter 
stone frome Gibson garth into the churche : and he, this exami- 
nate, and 6 moo, helpt in with the said hallywater stone. And 
for theise that drew or brought in the said alter stone, he cannott 



FIELD. 



188 DKP08ITION8, BTC. 

Bbmb- name one of them^ nor well can remember who helpt this 
ezaminate in with the hallywayter fatt. sare John Potter, John 
Richerdson, a sbomaker; and he, this examinate, Thomas 
Mayson, and Christofer Hartbom drewe the same hallywater 
fiatt to William Clark's dongehili, wber they left yt. And, as 
for the said alterstone, this examinate. Walker, and others laid 
yt in the grownd, and rubbish above ytt. And, as for the 
books, he, this examinate. saith that the said Fleitham came to 
this deponent's honse, in a morning byfore day, and oommandyd 
this examinate, in the Quene's name and the Earles, to delyrer 
the church books to hym and Bulman, for they wolde not furth 
of the towne to they had them to borne. And thereupon this 
examinate rose out of his bedd, and caried the said books to the 
crosse, to the nomber of fyve bookes, which this deponent 
browght to the crosse in the towne gayt, wher they were burnt 
by this examinate and dyrers others; amongest which was 
Cuthbert Gibson, which help to cutt the said books : other fett 
fyer and whynes and straw, amongest which was Agnes Sklayter, 
Isabell Fidler, Florenc Lockson, widow Whyte, and other. 
Examined whither this deponent, when the bokes was in bum* 
inge, sayd, ^' Se wher the Homilies fleith to the devill;'' which 
words he, this examinate, denieth. Mary, he saith, that when 
one old booke of the dark's was in buminge, this deponent said 
alowd, '^ Se wher the byble homes ;'' which word she spoke to 
the intent that the byble should not be cauld for, which is yett 
8a[fe] therebye : saying he this deponent was at masse, toke 
hollybred, and brought bread to the church, to make hollybread 
upon; he used no beids, but he hard Richard Hartbom 
preichinge in the pulpett, speke against the Queue's religion 
established in this realme, tellinge them that they wear aU 
out off the way, and worse then a horse that haith bein in the 
tnyer, which will no more come ther again : and so he, this 
examinate, and the rest of the people, knelinge doon, wer 
reconsiled, and toke the said Hartbom's benediction. 

He confessith this examinacion to be trewe, and is sory for 
his offences herein commyttyd, and praieth the Queue's highnesa 
to forgyve hym. + 



THE REBELLION OF 1569. 189 

Skdob- 

CCXLI. The prbsonal answer op Richard Carter^ fiic. ^^^^ 
OF Sedgefield, 12 Mat. [C. 189^ b.] 

Richard Carter, of Segefield, laborer, aged 50 years, 
Saith that at the request of Roland Hixson he cam out of the 
x^^ (tithe) stone barn of Sedgfeilde, and helpt to sett up the 

aulter in Sedgfeild churche, but he was not at masse ther. 

« 

CCXLIL William Greybson^ of the same, laborer, aged 48. 
years. 

He saith and doith agree with Carter aforesaid, and saith he. 
came in after the lyfftinge of the preist being at masse, which 
this examinate remembrith well. 

CCXLIII. Thomas Whbitlsy, of the same, laborer, aged 50 
years. 

He helpt up with the aulter stone, but he buildyd not the 
sayd alter, and was at the masse when the priest Hartbom 
was at the sacryng therof. He cannott tell who drew the 
alterston. 

CCXLIV. George Bargait, of Sedgfeilde, laborer, aged 36 
years. 

Agrees with Wheitley. 

CCXLV. Henry Smith, of the same, laborer, aged 60 
years. 

He saith that he was at the lyfiMng up of the aulter stoon, 
but he hard no masse. 

CCXLVI. James Gublyon, of the same, laborer^ aged 30 
years. 

He saith that he was at the ly£fting up the aulter stoon : he 
saw nott masse. 

CCXLVII. Edward Smith, of the same, laborer, aged 50 
years; 



190 DEPOSITIONS, KTC. 



SiDOB- He saith that he was oomaDciyd by Brian to gyre a lifit at the 
aiilter ston« He was at the masse after the elevacioii. 



CCXLVIII. The personal answer op Richard Flbat- 

HAM, AND OTHERS, OF SeDGEFIELD. [C. 192, b.] 

Richard Fleatham, of Sedgefeild, aged 36 years. 

He saith that, comminge from Butterwik to Sedgefeild, many 
of the parishioners ther was drawing of the alter stone in at the 
quere doore, amongest whom was Richard Gibson, bat mo he, 
this examinate, cannott depose upon; at which tyme this 
examonett, onbodden or commandyd of any man, helpt in with 
the said alter stone. 

Signum + Ricardi Flbitham. 

CCXLIX. Richard Gregson, of the same, laborer, aged 
34 years. [lb.] 

He saith that he was not at home that day which the aulter- 
ston was drawen into the church of Sedgefeild, for that cer- 
tainly he, this examinate, was at the Yle ; nor he hard nott 
masse, neither ther nor in aney other place, the tyme of this 
Rebellion. 

Richard Gregson. 

CCL. William Noble, of the same, aged 30 years. [lb.] 
He saith that he, this examinate, was not at drawinge in of 
the alter stone, neither at the beginninge nor endinge ; for all 
that tyme he, this examinate, was sleping in his owne house. 

Signum + Will. Noble. 

CCLI. Richard Peirson, of the same, laborer, aged 
34 years. [lb.] 

He saith that, by the vertue of his oothe, he, this examinate, 
was ai; the drawing of the awlterston articulate, at the first 
bringing furth of the same out of Gibson^s garth, and never 
after that tyme. 

Signum -f Ricard Peirson. 



THB RBBBLLION OF 1569. 191 

CCLII. EvANC Oltver^ of the same^ laborer^ aged 30 Sed^b- 
years. [C. 193.] "■"*• 

He saith he^ this examinate^ came frome Butterwike, and by 
chanc cam to the compeny that had the stone articulate ; and for 
saying of one childe then in danger he^ this deponent^ lift at 
one of the stangs^^i^ but mayd no further help. 

Signum 4- dicti Evanc. 

CCLIII. CuTHBERT GiBSON; of Sedgefeild^ laborer^ aged 
30 years. lb. 

He saith that^ when Roland Hisson had brought the books 
articulate to be bornt, this examinate helpt to cutt one of them 
in peices^ but^ which of them yt was he canott depose ; sainge 
that he was ioked with Th. Morland at drawinge of the aulter- 
ston^ and that one John Potter toke the gadd and drove them. 

Signum -f Cuthberti Gibson. 



CCLIV. Testes producti ex officio ad promotionem 

ThO. WaRKE literati contra RoLANDUM HlXSON, 
UNUM OARDIANORUM ECCLESliE PAROCHIALIS DE SeDO- 
FEILDB. [C. 195.] 

IsABBL GuBLiNOB, of Scdgefeilde^ widow^ aged about 70 
years^ 

Dicit that^ after Martlemas last past, about the tyme that 
many of the township of Sedgefeild cam out of Torksheir from 
the Eerlls, this examinate^ in a morninge about the sone risinge^ 
being in her house at Sedgefeild^ occupied with her doughter 
childe^ she hard a great noyse on the towne grein ther, which 
was nigh hand this examinate's house^ and sodenly sawe a great 
flame of fier^ which this deponent was moch astonied withall^ 
and mervalinge moch thereat she looked out of her wyndow^ 
and then she hard divers children and yong folk say that 
Roland Hixson was burninge the bookes ; and then this depo- 
nent^ still in her owne house^ dyd see the said Roland Hyxson 

• . Pieces of timber; 



192 DEPOSITIONS, ETC. 

Sbdoi-^ stitF emong the books with his staff, and ndse them, which was 
"*''* the towne grein of Sedgefeild, nigh the crosse ther. Examined 
who mo was at the burninge of the said bokes, she saith ther was a 
great multitade, and specially of youngh to hir judgment, whidi 
went not fdrthe of her own house, nor taried any longer at the 
wyndoo, for that she had a naked childe in hir armes, which 
incontinent after she satt doon to the fier with : and farther 
she cannot depose. Examined what wordes that she this exa* 
minate hard the said Hixson say, at the burninge of the said 
bokes, she saith that she did nott here nothing of hym then. 
Mary, by report, it is voced in the said township by one 
Fletham, that he the said Roland shuld say then, ^' Se wher the 
domines («o) fleith to the deivilL'' -f 

CCLV. Margaret Snawdon, wife of Thomas Snawdon, 
of Sedgfeild, husbandman, aged 66 years. [C. 195, b.] 

She suth that, the same morning that the bookes was hom- 
ing, this deponent was abrode in the town, to requier one of 
the nyhbours ther, which was newe comed home firom the 
Earlls, to be suirtie for hir husband, the said Thomas, which 
was then in prison at Durham. At what tyme this deponent 
dyd se Roland Hixson then stirring emongest the books, then 
in burning, and lyfting up the leaves of them with his staff, he 
said, '^Se the dyvell domines fle into the allyment;'' saing that 
one Gamett wyf and a webster wyf wold have saved some of 
the said books, but the said Roland wold not lett them have 
any. And yett some of the leves of the said bookes the said 
wyffes toke away with them, to play their children withall : and 
further this examinate cannott depose who she, this deponent, 
sawe at the burning of the said books ; she saith she toke no 
heid of none but the said Roland, nor can depose upon, for his 
tong was hiest. -H 

CCLVI. John Johnson, of Parsonbiers,in Wardall, yoman, 
aged 30 years. [C. 196.] 

He saith that he cannott depose of the burning of the books 
articulate, of his own knowledge, but only by reporte of Richard 
Fleitham, Robert Todd, and the said precontestis, which sundry 



CCLVII. Thb personal answer of Thomas Moblanoe. 

[U. 196.] 

Th. Morlande^ of Sedgfeild^ weiffer, aged 23 years. 

Saith that he was at the drawinge in of the aulter stone into 
the church yarde of Sedgefeild, and no further; saing that 
Cuthbert Gibson was this examinate's yockfellow. Examined 
who sett this examinate and the other to drawe the said ston, he 
saith Lancelott Bulman^ and other he cannot depose upon; saing 
xipon his othe h^ maid no other offenc neither in coming or 
hering masse, setting up of the aulter, used neither holly breiad, 
or holly waiter, or any beids. -f 

1570. 5 May.Cuthbertus Gubion, Tho. Richerdson, Robertus 
Walker, Johannes Newton, Christof. Hartborne. 

Judex injunxit eis poenitentiam in vestibus lineis, in facie 
ecclesice suae p^rochialis, nudatis pedibus et capite, unica vice, 
et ad certificandum infra xx dies in scriptis. Act Bookf p. 201. 

* Threatened, put in fear. 
O 



FIELD. 



THE REBELLION OP 1569. 193 

tyme have tolde and reportyd to this examinate and others, ^^^^' 
that the said Roland rent and burnt all the bokes that belonged 
to Sedgefeilde church in manner and forme as the said precon- 
testes haith deposed, and yett wold cover his doing by setting 
his faulte of Brian Headlham and others ; saing also, that when 
dyvers women and others wold have saved some of the said 
bookes, the said Hixson wold nott suffer them so to doo, and 
ferid* dyvers with their sticks for 24 bowers yf they stirde any 
of the said bokes when they were in burning, and haith also 
threitened the said precontestes concerning their commynge this 
day. He saith also, that the said Roland, by reporte of the 
children of Seidgefeild, hyd the hoUi water stou in the myd- 
dinge, and caste strawe thereon, and then said over the same, 
'^ Dominus vobiscum," and was the cause of the aulter byldinge, 
and promised waidges to Th. Richardson, and Hartborn, and 
others, which ys yett unpaid by report. 



194 DBPOSITIONS^ ETC. 

Long Nbw- 

"^^^ CCLVIII. The personal answers of Cicily Merington 

AND Janet Colling. [C. 179 b.] 

CiciLiA Merington, of the parish of Langnewton^ single- 
woman, aged 18 years, fatetur that she caned one burden of 
sand to the building of the alter y', ex mandato Tho. Colling, 
unius gardianor. ibid. 

CCLIX. Janet Colling, de eadem, singlewoman, aged 
about XX years, 

Dicit that she hair thre skepfiill of sand to the said alter. 

CCLX. Johannes Grainger de Stokton in com. Dunelm, 
yoman, fatetur, petens yeniam, &c. 

CCLXI. The personal Answer of John Nicolson, of 

Longnewton. [C. 179 b.] 

John Nicolson, of Langnewton, in com. Dunelm. laborer, 
aged 60 years. 

Super primo, 2^ et S^ articulis, fatetur, etc. 

Super 4^^, he saith, by the comandement of Th. CoUinge, 
one of the churchwardens ther, but had nothing for his labor, 
he receyvid holly water,but not holly breyd; and one mass ther 
also he harde, which one Richard Hartbom sayd. As for the 
holly water stone, he, this examinate, cannot depose. He 
saith that Cicilie Merington and Janet Colling, Katherin Somer- 
sett, Magarie Realff, and Isabell Mawer help to beir lyme and 
sand to the aulter for the makinge off the same ; and further he 
cannott depose. 

Super 5^0^ he confessith that article to be trewe, and the 
contents thereoff, and is hardy [sorry] for the same, and pray 
God and the Quene^s Ma^® to forgyve hym. + 

CCLXIL The personal answer of Adam Markham. 

[C. 180.] 

Adam Markham, of Longnewton, laborer, etatis per oi- 



THE REBELLION OF 1569. 195 

pedum corporis xaAitj^^ annor.^ ex sua scientia nescit^ jura- LonoNew 
tus^ etc. Dicit that^ during this tyme of rebellion^ this exa- 
minate« at the request and commandement of Th. CoUyn, 
churchwarden ther, he, this deponent, helpt to lyffl up the 
aulter stoon, but barr no manner of stone, or metell, lyme, or 
sand, to the rearinge up of the same ; nor dyd se the holly- 
water stone at any tyme, ne tok hollybred or holly waiter ; saing 
he is very hartly sory for his offence commytted in the pre- 
misses, and askith God and the Queue's Ma^^^ forgyveues^ 
ac sic in forma pauperis dimissus super confessume sua paro- 
chiali facienda. + 

CCLXIII. The personal answer of Margery Crawe. 

[a 180.] 

Marjory Crawe, widow, late wife and reflict of Thomas 
Crawe, while living at West Awkland, laborer, aged 75 years, 
saith and confessith that she harde one masse in the church of 
Long Newton, and borre one skepfull of sande to the buyld- 
ynge of th^e aulter ; being very sori therfor, saing that she, this 
examinate, was commandyd, upon payn of 12^. by Th. Collyn 
dowghter, in hir father's name, to beir the said sande. 

CCLXIV. Katherine Polson, alias SoMBRSETT,of Lang- 
newton, widow, aged 60 years. 

Only was in the church the tyme that the prest Hartborne 
was at masse, but she, this examinate, did se nothing. [C. 180.] 

CCLXV. IsABELL Mawbr, of tfac Same, singlewoman, 
aged 18. She saith, at commaundement of Th. Collyn doughter, 
she bair 2 skepfull of clay to the alter, and was in the church 
when Harbome preached, which said that the auditors was 
lowlers (Lollards ?), and /fiad^ bein damned this xj yeres. [C. 
180.] K^y 

CCXLVI. Elizabeth Parr, of the same, singlewoman, 
aged xviij years. She saith that she bar tow barrofuU off 
morter with Alison Newham ; sainge was in the church, but 

o 2 



\96 DKP08ITION8> BTC. 

LonoNbw- neither sawe or hard masse: bycause her mother was sick, she 
taried nott [C. 180 b.] 

CCLXVIL MAR6ARiBREiLFFB,of the same, singlewoman, 
aged zix. years. She saith she was commaiidyd by CoiUnge's 
doughter, ut supra ; but being sick, she barr nothing, but satt 
down ; and also went to the church when the mass was ther^ 
but maid no tary, sainge the people was bound away byfore she 
came to the church. [C. 180 b.] 



CCLXVIII. The pkasonal answer of Thomas Colling. 

[C. 182 b.] 

Thomas Colltno of Longnewton, husbandman, aged 60 
years. 

He saith that one Capitain Welton and Richard Harborne 
gave hym, this deponent, a commandement in the Queue's 
Majestie's name, and the carle's, to buyld up one alter ; and 
therupon this examinate gave commandement to neighbors rownd 
about the towne, by his dowghter Barbarye, to help to buyld and 
mak up the said alter, which was maid and sett up by this ex- 
aminate, John Martyn the clarke, one James [blank)'] that is 
Mr. H all's hyndsman, and the women of Longnewton that was 
swome in the courte concerninge the said alter ; and that this 
examinate and John Nicolson, and the said women, toke down 
the said alter stone, and bair yt out of the church yarde, and 
threw the same over the church wall ; and they cast yt into the 
said pytt, alias sandhole, which is covered on every syd. And 
concerning the holly water fat, yt was broke many daies sence. 
He never hard masse, toke no holly waiter nor holly breid, used 
no bead, hard not Hartborn sermond ; and for the bookes he 
saith the said Welton and his compeny rent them and maid 
them away ; but how they came by the said books he cannott 
depose, saving he thinks the clarke opened the kirke door then. 
Ac ultra nescit deponere, sayinge that he haith more love and 
affections to the Queue's Majes tie's proceedings then to the 
Pope's religion- and to the masse. + 



THE RBBBLLION OF 1569. 197' 

Long New- 



CCLXIX. The personal answer of Alice Newham. 

[C. 184.] 

Alice Newham, of Longnewton^ singlewoman, aged 18 
years. 

She saith, concerning the aulter buyldinge articulate^ she, this 
deponent, emongest other women, was commandyd by Barbarye 
Collyng, Thomas CoUinge doughter, to helpe up with the aulter 
of hir father's saynd in the Queue's name; and so this deponent 
thereupon went with Elizabeth Par, Cicilie Merington, Isabell 
Mawer, and other went to the sande pytt in the towne gait at 
Langnewton, and caried from thenc to the settinge up of the 
said alter two skepfull of sande ; no other mettell, stone, clay, 
or rubbish, sayinge that she used no beids this tyme of rebellion, 
hard no masse, toke neither holly bred nor holly wayter, hard 
no preiching, nor further dyd offend in any parte or branch of 
the article. 

That she is sory for hir offences done concerning the building 
the said alter, being contrary the lawes of this realm, and 
praieth God and the Queue's Majestic to forgyve. + 



TON. 



CCLXX. The personal answer of Thomas Watson, ^^^^^^' 

HAM. 

[C. 193.] 

Thomas Watson, of Billingham, yoman, aged 50 years. 

He saith that, being at Hartlepoill emongest other rebbells, 
in one William Tompson house, he sawe Hartborn articulate in 
his bedd, and his brother with hym, that helpt the said Hart- 
born to doo masse ; but in any other place he never spacke to or 
with the said Hartborn but in the church ther, byddinge him 
good morrow afore a great multitude, saing that he never moved 
or requiered the said Hartborn to come to Billingham church, 
wher this examinate is dark, nor enformed Stafford's men that 
the balyff of Billingham had ther bookes, nor required the 
baliffe to delyver the said bookes to be bomt ; but he saith that 



198 DKPOSITIONS^ BTC. 

Billing- the hye alter stone ys buried in the queir ther, and one read 
cope is also remaining in the said churche as yett undefieu^ed. 

Per me^ Thomas Watson. 

CCLXXI. PsTAUS Fynch, of Wolston^ laborer^ aged 40 
years. Ibid. 

He saith that he^ this examinate^ was not at buminge of any 
bookes^ nor hard not masse. 

Signum -H Petri Fynch. 



Stockton. CCLXXII. The PERSONAL ANSWER OF AnnE BuRDON. 

[C. 179 bj 

Anne Burdon, wife of William Burdon, aged 40 years, dicit 
quod nee ipsa deponens, seu Eliz. Wapps, vel Margar. Smith, 
prsebuerunt laborem circa edificacionem altaris in ecclesia sua 
parochiali de Stokton : ac inde dimiss® sunt absolutce. 

1569-70. 18 Mar. Officium domini contra [blank] Dacke 
curatum de Stokton. {Act Book.) 



Chester CCLXXIII. 1569-70. 18 Mar. Officium domini contra 
' Curatum de Chestre, qui ministravit communionem Domini 
contra jura ecclesiastic/a. Ad comparendum in die sabbati 
proximo. {Act Booky f. 190.) 

1570. Ap. 8. Officium domini contra Johannem Brone^ 
curatum de Chestre. Judex monuit ipsum ad comparendum in 
proxima synodo, eo quod administravit coenam Domini pane 
illicito. {Act Book.) 



Monk CCLXXIV. 1569-70. 18 Mar. Officium domini contra 
Weart \ blank], curatum de Wermouth Monacorum, super celebracione 

MOUTH. ,, ... ' r 

coen® Domini pane illicito. Comparuit reus et fatetur quod 
hujusmodi panis habuit quandam formam super eodem im- 



TEB. 



THE BBBBIiLION OF 1569. 199 

pressam. Judex monuit ipsum ad interessendum in die Sabbati ^ovk 

Weak* 

propcimo. {Act Book, f. 190.) mouth! 



CCLXXV. 1569-70. 18 Mar. Eodem die comparuit Skahah. 
dominus Thomas Wright, vicarius de Seham, ac fatetur se 
quotidie dicere matutinas Beatee Marise privatim in camera sua^ 
in presentia domini Georgii Wynter, Johannis Herrison, et 
aliorum. Judex detulit examinationem dicti vicarii ulterius 
usque in posterum. {Act Book, L 190.) 



CCLXXVL 1569-70. 18 Mar. Officium domini contra Heighino- 

TON "V^HIT" 

Johannem Nicolson, curatum de Heighington, qui publice worth,and 
pronuntiavit in ecclesia sua parochiali quosdam psalmos in ^^^^°^®" 
lingua Romana,. contra leges ecclesiasticas. Comparuit et 
fatetur. 

Judex decrevit magistrum Willielmum Whithed, vicarium 
ibidem, citandum fore in diem Sabbati prox. {Act Book.) 

1569-70. 18 March. Officium domini contra Robertum 
Crawfurth, curatum de Whitworth, super sanctificatione panis 
et aquae in capella de Whitworth, contra jura bujus regni 
Anglias. Comparuit dictus Robertus ac fatetur factum, submit- 
tens se poenitentiae. {Act Book, f. 189 b.) 

1569-70. 18 Mar. Officium domini contra Ricardum 
Mylner, curatum de Lanchester, qui fatetur se publice in sua 
ecclesia parochiali legisse ^^the Latany and other sufFraiges 
abolished.^^ Comparuit et fatetur — Eodem die judex commisit 
dietos dominum Crawfurth {curate of Whitworth), et Ricardum 
Milner in carcerem domini episcopi, super excessibus. {lb.) 

1 570. Ap. 8. Eodem die comparuerunt Robertus Crawfurth, 
Johannes Nicholson, and Ricardus Mylner, presbiteri, petentes 
clementiam domini judicis ac veniam super excessibus suis 
concedendam, submittentes se poenitentiis condignis. {Act 
Book, {. 191.) 



CCLXXVII. 1569-70. Mar. 18. Officium domini contra Wil- Ovingham. 
lielmum Brigham, vicarium de Ovingham. {Act Book, f. 190.) 



200 DEPOSITIONS, ETC. 



MiTFOBD. CCLXXVIII. Proceedings against Roger Venis, vicar 

OF MiTFORD. 

Testes producti ex officio ad promotionem Georgii Cuth- 
berte literati, unius promotorum in supplementum dicti officii 
legitime admissi, super quibusdam articulis adversus dominum 
Rogerum Venis dericum,* vicarium de Mytford, exhibitis. [C. 
205]. 

James Atkinson of Benridg, in com. Northumb. yoman^ 
aged 36 years, one of the churchwardens. 

He saith that Roger Venis haithe been vicare of Mytford the 
space of 7 or 8 yeres, and so reputed and taken, and receved 
the profetts therof. 

Saithe that Roger Venis there vicare haithe ben continually 
from his vicarege since Saynt Andro daye last past, and byfore 
that tyme was often tymes comminge and goinge from them. 
And synce Saynt Androo daye the parishioners haithe lacked 
service upon the holydayes, and diverse people unburyed by 
any preste, and some children not christened of a longe tyme for 
lacke of a prest ; wherupon they mad there complaynts to the 
fermers and to my L, of Duresme. + 

William Bullock b, aged 50 years, husbandman, of St. 
Leonard's hospitale. 

He saith that he is sure that the said Roger Venice haithe 
bene from the vicaraidge of Mydfurthe since Candlemesse last 
was a twelvemonethe, since which tyme he never served ther 
but by a Scotishe preiste, which being dischairg by Mr. Arch- 
deacon at the visitacion of Easter last, which after the said tyme 
it laid unserved two Sondaies, and served the next two Sondaies 
after at the procurement of Mr. Duxfeld ; and then it was 
served, as it is yet, by the meanes of Mr. Lisley, fermer ther 
or parson with Mr. Mydleton ; of which fault he, this exami- 
nate, and divers maid presentment in the court here the third 
of Junii 1570. + 

* Roger Venys, of the diocese of Durham, was ordained sub -deacon at Aukland on 
the 17th Dec. 1558, upon a title givf^n to him by Robert Ogle of Belsey, in Northum- 
focrlaud, and priest upon the same title 25th May 1559. — Reg. Tunstall. 



« THE REBELLION OF 1569. 201 

Gawin Lawsok, yoman, of Bendrig, aged 33 years. Mitford. 

The vicar is absent emong the rebells^ and haithe bene since 
before christinraesse. Gawn. 

John Snawdon of None Ryding, husbandman, of 30 years. 
The church now served by one Sir Thomas Goodhusband. 



CCLXXIX. Articles against Thomas Swalwell. 

[Swift's Book, 1 93 b.] 

* 

ITheis articles followinge we R[obert] S[wifte], Vicar General 
to the Reverend father in God, etc., do by vertue of the office 
of the said reverend father, objecte against the, Thomas Swalwell^ 
clerke, touchinge thye excesse and perverse opinion, contrarye 
to the religion of Christ, receyved within the Churche of Eng- 
land. 

1 . First of all, we objecte and saye against the, Thomas Swal- 
well, that, by the lawes of this realme, lawfullie established, all 
ecclesiastical! persons, haveinge care of soules, oughte by the 
same, to th' uttermost of there wytt, knowledge, and leamynge, 
purelye, sincerelye, and without anye colour or dissiinulacion^ 
declare, manifest, and open, foure tymes in the yere at the least) 
in the churche, that all the usurped and foren poMnre, haveing 
no establishment or grounde by the lawe of God, is for most 
just causes taken awaie and abolyshed ; and that, therefore, no 
manner of obedyence or subjection, within the Queen^s majestie^s 
heighnes realmes and domynyons, is dewe to any suche foren 
powre, and that the Queen's Majestie's powre within her realmes 
and domynyons is the highest powre under God, to whome all 
maner of men, within the same realmes and domynyons, by 
God's lawe, owe most lawaltie and obedyence, afore and above 
all other powers and potentates in the earthe ; all which lawes 
all and everye ecclesiasticall person, on his owne byhalfe, oughte 
faithfullie to kepe and observe, and, as farr as in him may lye, 
shall cause to be observed and kept of others. Et ponimus et 
articulamur, etc. 

2. Also we objecte and saie against the, Thomas Swalwell, 
that you, T. S., haithe not onelye not declared, manifested, and 



202 DBPO8ITION09 BTO. 

Opened foure tymes in the yere, sincerelie and without dissimu- 
lacion^ in all suche churches and chappells dedicated, where thou 
hast served within the dioceb of Durhame, by the space of one^ 
two^etc^ormoe yeres, that all foren powreis justelye extinguished 
in this realme^ and no maner of obedyence and subjection dewe 
unto any foren powre, but onelie to the Queue's Majestic of 
this realme, nexte under God upon earthe, accordinge to thye 
bounden duetie by the said lawes ; but also^ contrarye to the 
same lawes, thy duetie and obeysaunce, at Ebchester, Medoms- 
ley, or ellys where, about Lammas last past, on a Sondaie or 
hollidaie, in this yere 1570, in open audyence, and in the strete 
at after noone, and els often in the presence of dyvers persons, 
then and there hearinge the same, diddest directUe, advisedlye, 
and wiUinglie affirme, saye, and mayntejrne, that the Queue's 
Majestie haithe no authoritie within this realme over the spirituall 
or ecclesiasticall staite of mynisters, no more then an other 
woman; which thinge thou once, etc., or oftner together spake, 
affirmed, and maynteyned in the presence of the same parties, 
sainge and reasoninge further, that, if hir Majestie had auctho- 
ritie over the clergie by God's word, then had she aucthoritie 
also to lowse and bynd as they have ; in contempte of the said 
lawes, the danger of his awne soule, and the evill example of 
others. 

3. Also we object and saye against the, Thomas Swalwell, 
that thou, T. S., contrarye to the lawes and doctryne of the 
Churche of Eaglande, touching^ the Blessed Communyon of 
the bodie and bloode of our Saviour Christe, diddest, about the 
tyme aforesaid, and longe before, directlie and willinglie affirme 
and saie, that, after the wordes of consecration, as thou termest 
them, there was no substance of bread and wyne remanynge, but 
the reall and proportionable bodie of Christ enclosed within the 
compasse of the said breade and wyne, beinge otherwysse en- 
formed then and there by the sermon of one Thomas Leaver, 
one of the Queen's Majestie's preachers, allowed throughe the 
realme of Englande. 

4. Also we object and saie against the, T. S. that [thou,] con- 
trarye to the lawes of this realme and the doctryne of the Churche 
of England, lawfullie established, aboute the tyme aforesaid, did 



TUB RBBBLLION OF 1569. 20S 

advisedlye, maliciouslye, and obstinatelye afferme that Christen 
men were bounden to auricular confession and numbringe of 
all there sjrnnes to a prest, under payne of damnadon ; abusinge 
the example of the tene leapers, whome Christ commaundyd 
upon there den singe to she we them selves to the prest ; and 
also sainge that he wold stande against all men in defence 
thereof. 

5. Also we objectte and saie against the, T. S. that thow, in 
the tyme of the lute Rebellion, diddest procure, suffer, and 
maynteyne one Sir John Cowper, curat of Whittonstall, to 
churche three women and marye certeyne persones in latton, in 
such rite and forme as was prescribed by the Pope, at Med- 
domsley, where thou was then and there the curate. 

6. Also we objecte and saie against the, T. S, that thou, T. S. 
by the space of 20 yeres by past, hast been a notoriouse 
favorer of poperye and false servinge of God, and an enymye 
to Godd's true religion, now truelye sett fourthe by publique 
aucthoritye within this realme ; and of covitousnes and need, 
and upon injuste surmyses and by stealthe, did crepe into 
Orders, beinge unfitt for that function, as well for thy lyfe as 
leaminge. And upon all and singuler the premysses dothe 
labore the common voice and fame in the parishes of £• and M., 
and other places there aboute. 

Wherefore, the premisses considered, and so muche thereof 
as is necessarie beinge proved, thow, T. S. art, by the lawes of 
God and the lawes and ordynaunces ecclesiasticall of this 
Realme of England, to be suspended from the execution or 
mynistracion of any dyvine thinges within the diocies of 
Duresme. 



3 Feb. 1570. Responsio personalis Tho. Swalwell, 
"presbyteri, articulis ex mero officio proponendis. [C. f, 214.] 

Thomas Swalwell, Curat of Branspeith, aged 54 years. 

He saith that he haith served one yere at Ebchester, and one 
other yere at Medomsley, and nowe this last quarter or more 
at Branspeith. He saith, upon his oothe, that he haith 4 tymes 



204 DBP08ITION8; BTC. 

in aither yere, and also this last quarter^ declared accordingly 
that all forran powers ar justly extingwished within this realme, 
and that all power within this realme over all persons doith 
belonge to the Quene's majestie, and none ells. He saith also 
that, in somer last, he served at Medomsley, untill about 14 
daies after lammes last ; in which tyme of his servinge this 
examinate carae dayly to Ebchester to his meat, but towchinge 
sainge and affirming, or reasoning of the Quene's auctoiitie on 
the stait ecclesiasticall ther, about that tyme, or for any suche 
cause, he utterly denyeth yt. 

He saith that he dyd neither procure, suffer, nor maintein the 
said Sir George Cowper to mary or church any woman within 
the chappell of Medomsley. Mary, he, this examinate, sawe 
hym ther, but he had nothing to doo with hym ; sainge that 
the Said Cowper maried one Anthony Forster and Isabell 
Smithe, at the procurement of one Richard Awkland, servaunt 
to Mr. Swynbome, farr against this examinate*s will* 

He saith that he haith been a favorer of God's religion sett 
out by the Queue's Majestic this 20 yeres and more, and used 
no sutde meanes in procuring his orders ecclesiasticall. 

Thomas Swalwell. 

CuTHBBRT Warde, of Beufeldsyd, near Medomsley, Gent, 
aged 70 years. [C. f. 228.] 

He saith that the said Thomas Swalwell was curet att 
Medomsley about a yere or more past, at lammes, in which 
tyme he haith hard the said Thomas Swalwell bydd the people 
pray for the Queue, but he never hard hym declare or open in 
the pulpett or churche, out of any boke, that forren power is 
justly and lawfully abholished, or the Queue's power onlye 
aUowede. And he remembrith that he, this examinate, being in 
one Richard Sympson's, drinking emongest other neighbours, 
upon a Sonday at after noone, about lammes last, the said 
Thomas Swalwell and one William Yong, then curat at 
Ebchestre, was ther also; but neither the said William, nor 
Thomas Swalwell, nor this examinate, or the neighbours then 
present, talked of any matter of religion. 

}ie saith that in the rebellion tyme one Sir George Cowper 
dyd mary one Anthonye Foister, this examinate being present ; 



THE REBELLION OF 1569. 205. 

but he knoweth not that he churched any women ther, nor 
knoweth who procured his commynge. 

He saith that he haithe known the said Thomas Swalwell by 
the spaic of 40 yere dwelling at the Woodheid^ in the paroche of 
Ovingham, and taken to be an honest man, but what religion 
he is of he canott depose ; sainge further, that althoughe he was 
staid of orders by Mr. Lever, yet my lord afterward admittyd 
him. 

Signum 4- Cuthbebti Ward. 



CCLXXX. Testes producti ex parte Caroli Shawe, 

SUPER CONCORDIA INTER IPSUM CaROLUM ET BaRTRAMUM 
MyTFORB FACTA, IN CAUSA DEFAMATIONIS. 13 JuDC, 

1570. [C] 

Richard Hutcheson, of Elvett, in the suburb of Durham, 
brasier, aged 60 years. 

He saithe that, harde after the reballs was fiedd, Hewgh 
Frende, metyng with this examinate in Elvet, bytwixt B. Myt- 
ford house and the said Hewgh Frend's house, the said Hewgh 
Frende tolde this examinate that Charles Shawe was content to 
become frends with Bartram Mytforde, wherupon they 2 went 
to seike Charles Shawe at his owne house ; and after this exami- 
nate had welcomed hym home, and upon Hewgh Frend^s talke 
movyd and wyshed hym and B. Mytford to be frends and 
lovers togither, whereunto the said Charles was well content; 
and so this examinate caulde upon B. Mytforde, and they all 
togyther mett at this examinate's house, where was also then 
Henry Jaxson, Henry Hirst with Hewgh Frend, this exaini* 
nate, and the parties. And after certain unquiet wordes caste 
bitwixt the parties at their meatinge, this examinate and his 
fellowes pacified them, and perswadyd them to be frendes, and 
drincke togyther, as they dyd [at] length, shakinge merilye hands 
togyther; and other order they toke none. Mary, Charles 
Shawe said that, no we that we be frends and lovers, yf Bartram 



206 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

hare any matter against me, lett hym trye the lawe. Whereupon 
they oommoned to take farther order at laysour bytwixt the 
parties, but nothing hitherto was further doon. 

Examined further upon the order in writinge, he saith that 
the parties dyd not choise hym to order all matteres from the 
beginninge of the world to the day of their communion, but he 
was a mover thereoff, as a neighbour ; and as fore makinge of 
breackfast or supper, in consyderacion of their chardges spent 
in the lawe betwixt the parties, he hard no such to his knowlege. 

M. 



CCLXXXI. The will of Bertram Robson. [C.f. 174, &c.] 

Testes producti ex parte Roberti Smith, Dunelm. super 
factione testamenti sive ultimie voluntatis cujusdam Bertrami 
Robson, nuper de eadem, defuncti. 

Thomas Leg, of Lamesley, labourer, aged 60 years. 

He saith that he haith knowen Bartram Robson sex weiks 
bifore his death. 

He knoweth not whither he maid any will or noo, for he 
was at the makinge of none, neither was he requier by Robson 
to be wytnes of any will, nor by any other at that tyme ; but 
Robert Smithe requiered this deponent, at this tyme, to come 
in as a wyttnes to say what he knewe concerning the same. 
Mary, this examinate, about a weike byfore the said Robson 
death, brought 5 tokens frome Johanne S. the said Robert 
dowghter, dweUinge at Saddbury, one to the said Robert her 
fajfcher, one other to his wyfe, the third to William their sonne, 
and the 4th to their doughter, and the 5 th, being a silke point, 
to the said Robson ; and when this examinate delyrered the 
token to Robson, sittinge byfore the said Smith f yer side, he 
bad this deponent gyre yt to his mother, meaning the said 
Smith wyfe, sainge, ^^ For that which is myne is hers and hir 
husbands, and this boies,'' meaning William Smith, their sonn, 
then present. 



BCCLESIASTICAL PROCBBDINOS. 207 

He saith that he was not in SmitVs house to this 18th of 
Feb. the day of his examinacion, senc he delyvered the said 
tokens, at which tyme ther was non present but the persons of 
the said Smith houshold above named. 

Signum + Th. Leg. 

William Pallisbr, of Cauld Rowley, laborer, aged 24 
years. 

Being brother son to Robert Smith wyfe, he saith that this 
examinate comming to the said Smith his uncle house the Sat- 
terday last byfore the said Robson death, the said Robson was 
sytting byfore the fier, and talkinge of this sort, viz. ^^I 
trobled,'' said he to this examinate, ^^ this house with a bedd 
roome and fier and fleit ;* and therefore, yf I leave any thinge at 
my dyinge day, I intend to leave yt to Robert Smith, his sonne, 
and his wyfe.'* 

Signum + Williblmi Pallisbr. 

RoBBRT Fawcus, of Durham, glasier, aged 78 years. 

He saithe that, about one weike byfore the said Robson's 
death, this examinate came into the said Smith house by chans, 
and not sent for, at what tyme Robert Smith and his wyf was 
sittinge by the fyer, and the said Robson playin of one pair 
of claricords, and William Smith, their son, of another pair. 
At what tyme this examinate said to them ^^ Litle mirth is worth 
moch sorro.'^ And with that came the said Robson frome the 
claricords and said, ^^ We <2 ar agreed that the langer lyver of 
us 2 shalbe executour to the other.'' And this examinate said, 
'^ Nay, Robson, Mr. Marshall must be your executour :'' cui 
respondit negative, reporting great unkindnes that he had shew 
unto hym, saing but for the said Smith and his wyf that he, 
the said Robson, had died under a dike ; sainge farther, after 
moche talke, that Robert Smith shuld be his father and his 
wyfe his mother, and the said William his executour, if he 
left any goods at his death, and that no man shuld wrang them. 
Examined who mo hard thes words, nescit deponere ^ but at 
that tyme neither Palliser nor Ledg was present. 

To the 6th and 7th interrog. he saith that, at such tyme 

* Home, habitation. 



"SOS DBP08ITI0NS AND OTHER 

as Robson lay on his deathbedd^ this examinate was in Robert 
Smith house^ with many other, when Richard Marshall came 
in, on a afternoon, to se as the said Robson dyd, and asked 
hym many questions ; but he, the said Robson, maid no aun- 
swer, nor could not speak, and that very night after 8th of 
the cloke, William Baker, Richard Marshall, . • • Thomas 
Fawell, and other came in to the said Smith house, and asked 
for the key of the said Robson kist, and Robert Smith aun- 
^wered that he knew not wher yt was. Wherupon William 
Baker said, that yf they could not have yt they wolde breake 
jthe chiste ; and therupon the said William gropte for the same 
about Robson, and could not fyne it, bycause Robson lay on 
his back, and the key was in his purse byhinde hym ; and at 
last the said William borrowed George Cuthberf s knyf, and 
cut the said Robson girdle, and so came by his kee, which 
the said William laid in the said Robson^s hand bitwixt his 
thoumb and his fore fynger, ledinge the said Robson^s hand 
with his the said William, and saing to hym in this wyse, ^^ Will 
ye gyve me,^' meaning his self, " your key and your good ? " 
and so said to the said Robson concerning Robert Smith and 
his wyfe, William Smith, George Cutbbert, and Thomas Fawell, 
and last of all to and conceminge Mr. Marshall ; and then the 
key fell out of Robson^s hand into Marshall, but not of the 
said Robson gyvinge, but as the said William suffered then 
the key to faull out of the said Robson hand into the said Mr. 
Marshall, but the said Robson maid no manner of power in his 
hand, or to make any syng ayther with his hand or eye. 

Signum Roberti + Fawcus. 
The personal answer op William Smith, son of Robert 
Smith, aged 17 years. 

He knoweth not whither the 2 women articulate were the 
said Bartrame's next kinswomen, or noo, but by the report of 
the said Richard Marshall. 

The said Robson^s memory and senses was so trobled with 
the extreme raidg of his sycknes that he culde neither speake, 
writ, or doo any thinge at all. 

He saith that the testament and last will of the said B. 
Robson, that this examinate's father dyd exhibit to Mr, Swyfft 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 209 

to be proved, and all the contents theroff, save only the dayt of 
the same^ was the trew and last will of the said B. Robson ; 
sainge the dait therof was written with wronge by the negli- 
gene of the writer therof, for that the said Robert this exami- 
nate^s father is an aged man and unlemed/and, askinge coun- 
saill in the matter, he was advised to put the dead man's words 
in writing ; and so he did. 

At such tyme as William Baker examoned and moved sondry 
questions to the said B. Robson, his, the said Robson, wyt, 
memory, and strenght was goon, and that his eeis was shoott, 
and all his sensis so far past hym that he could neither stir 
hand or foot, nor make any signe or token of him self. This 
examinate was present with other at the tyme, and hard and 
sawe all things that was said and doon to hym. 

WyLLIAM SniTHRr 



Next of Kin of Bertram Robson, against his 

pretended will. 

William Baiker, of the city of Durham, yoman, aged 40 
years. 

Haith knowne the said Barthram this 12 yeres and moor, but 
for Alies Wiggon or Isabell Errington, the said Bartram^s 
cosings by report, this examinate knoweth them nott. 

The parson of the Southe Baly, that buried Robson evon in 
the communion tyme, came to this deponent, and asked his 
counsaill in what manner of servic* was best for hym, the said 
parson, to bury the said Robson in ; and this examinate tolde 
hym his mynd therin. 

This examinate dyd se the said Robson, articulate, the 28th 
day of November, which neither could speake or doo any actuall 
thinge of hym selfe, he was so sore taken. 

He never saw the will that Smith, articulate, exhibityd in the 
court, and that the 27th and 28th of November he^ the said 

* It will be remembered that at this period tbe Earls of Northumberland and 
Westmorland were attempting to restore the Roman Catholic service in the churches 
of Durham. 



210 DBP08ITI0NS AND OTHER 

Robson^ could not speake ; for the 27th day this examinate was 
with the said Robson, and the 28th he died^ and^ by credable 
report, spoke no manner of thinge in aither of thoise 2 dayes. 

Dicit that be, this examinate, Th. Fauell, 6. Cuthbert, and 
R. Wbithed, the 27th day of November, 1569, between ^ and 8 
of the cloke at night, at the request of Richard Marshall, went 
into Robert Smithe house to se Bartram Robson, lying syk 
ther, and being ther this examinate asked the said Uobson yf 
he had any frends in Newcastell, or no, who held up his right 
hand. Secundly, he asked hym whither he had any golde or 
money, or no, and wheir it laye ; and he maid a signe towerds 
the bedd feitt with his right hande, and they, supposing that he 
mente that his pursse was in the bedstraw, wher they maid 
searche, and then he pointed again, angrily, towerd the same 
way again, to the bedd feit, wherby they perceyved he mente 
his chiste, that stodd that way, on the far syd of the chamber. 
Then after this examinate asked the said Robson for the key of 
his chiste, and Robson groped about his girdle for his key; and 
this examinate, myndyng to help him, toke holde of his pursbe 
and girdle, wherat the said key was, and, therwith, the girdle, 
beyng old and soor worn, brake, and so this examinate, havinge 
the key at the last, delyvered the same to Robson in his right 
hand, wishinge hym to delyver the said key to one of them that 
he, this examinate, then wold name to hym, for the use of his 
said cosinge ; and therupon presently he, this examinate, named 
Robert and his wiff, W. Smith his son, and the other childe, 
then G. Cuthbert, T. Fawell, Robert Wyther, Robert Fawcus, 
then this examinate's self and his wyff : wherat he, the said 
Robson, mayd no signe at all, kepinge the key still in his hand ; 
and, last of all, when this deponent named Richard Marshall to 
hym, he, the said Robson, then offerd up his hand of hym self, 
and the key withall, and delyvered the same to Richard Mar* 
shall, articulate, which toke the same, and, in the presenc of 
this examinate, and all above named, went to the 3aid Robson 
chiste and opened ytt, wher they all togyther found 44«. Ad, in 
money, 2s. of King Edwarde's coyn, ISd. in Spanish money, 4 
olde rialls, one newe riall, and thre olde angells, one buttoned 
capp, 2 strait capps ; all which parcells was notyd in writing 



ECCLESIASTICAL I^ROCBEDINGS. 81 1 

ttipartit and indentyd, remaning in the keping of Richard Mar- 
shall and Georg Cuthbert. 

Thomas Horslby, of the city aforesaid, in artibus bac- 
calaureus, aged 23 years. 

A.1 that he can say tochinge the matter is^ that he haith 
knowne the said Mr. Marshall and the said B. Robson to have 
ben longe deir frends and old acquaintances^ and in houshode 
togyther, not only with Dean Watson, but also togyther by 
themselves here within the Baly of Durham, at what tyme the 
said Robson was ever uprysinge and doonelyng in Mr. Mar- 
ahalPs, this examinate at that tyme being Mr. Marshall's bed- 
fellow; at what tyme, and many dyvers tymes sine, as w^ 
within the cathedral church of Durham as otherweir, and in the 
presenc of Mr^ Marshall, abovesaid, and also in his absenc, this 
deponent haith harde the said Robson say that he haith bein 
moch bounden to Mr. Marshall, and when so ever God cauld of 
hym, the said Robson, the said Mr. Marshall shuld have that 
which was his, or such wordes in effect; and so he thinks the 
said Robson's mynd was at that tyme, and ever sine, for any 
thing that this escaminate hard to the contrarye. 

Tho. Horsley. 



CCLXXXII. Personalis responsio Jacobi Chamber 

POSITIONIBUS £T ARTICULIS LIBELLI MAGISTRI WlL- 

L.IELMI Stevenson, Yicarii de Hartborn (in a Suit 
FOR Dilapidations). [C. f. 196.] 

James Chambre, of Boldon, in com. Dunelm. yeoman, 
aged SO years. 

He belyvith that article to be trewe, that Mr. Stevenson haith 
bein Vicar of Hartborn by the spaio of one yer and more ; for 
this examinate uncle, Mr. Raif Todd, died at St. Matthew day, 
now a yere past. 

He sayth ther is a mansion house, and such howses as are 
articulate, belonging the same ; but wher y t is articulate that SOL 
will nott repair ytt, he belyvith yt not to be trcwe, for 60/. will 
buyld a newe house. Sainge further, that the mansion house 

2 p 



212 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

is moch better then yt was at his said uncle^s comming therto^ 
for ther was a crosse chamber newe buyldyd^ and 1 chymney 
therein maid of frestone, of his said uncle chardges, which abo 
buildyd a newe water come myln^ that yerely yeildeth more 
proffett to the vicar ther then the chardges of the decayes com- 
mith to, yf they were yerely ratyd. 

He saith that the said Rauff Tod, articulate, haith not 
receyved all manner of x^, proffects, and commodities, the 
tyme that he the said Rauf was vicar ther, that dyd grow or 
renew within the said parish ; for that the parishioners ther ar 
verye evill payers of ther duyties, being at this tyme owing to 
this examinate, his the said Rau£f executour, above 40/, 

He belyveth that the said Rauff Todd receyved small com- 
modytie by the said vicaridge, consydering the buylding he 
mayd ther, and the 40«. he paid yerely to the poore of the said 
parish, 4L ISs. Ad, yerely to the Quene for arrerages, consyder-r 
ing the 10th and subsidies, the fyndinge of the preiste, and all 
other ordinarye and extra ordinarye chardges, and specially the 
chardge of the suit the said Raiff had at London with one Fel- 
ton 2 yeres for the raic of the said water come myln. Sainge 
further, that my Lord Cuthbert late bushop of Durham dyd 
frely gyve the said vicaridg and benefice of Hartbom to the 
said Raiff Todd, in recompenc of part of the ransom he paid in 
Scotland. 

Jamks Chamber, 



CCLXXXIIL ExAMiNAcio testium super factione et 
veritate testamenti nuper Willielmi Kirkus pe 
Merington, defuncti, 10 Feb. 1570. [C. f. 204.] 

William Melmerbte, priest, vicar of Merrington, aged 64 
years. 

He saith that, tochinge the will of William Kirkus, which 
was lately exhibited in this courte by Elizabeth Kirkus, lait 
wyfe, — ^it is of this deponent's own hande writinge, which will 
also berith the dait 27th of Octobre last — this deponent and 
William Heighington therein the onlye wyttnesses. 



ECCLESIASTICAL. PROCEEDINGS. 213 

Super interrog. He saith that the will wherof he, this 
deponent, haith testified, was maid the 27th of Octobre, being 
Fryday, and the evon of Symon and Jude^s daye, byfore noone, 
about 9 or 10 of the cloke. 

He saith that William Kirkus declared his said will by worde 
of mouth, about 9 or 10 of cloke aforesaid, which this exami- 
nate wrote at afternoone, in his chamber, alone, the said day. 

He saiih that when he, this examinate, had written the will 
in his chamber, as is aforesaid, after the hering of yt he 
brought yt the next day at night, after evening praier, and the 
Sonday next also after evoning praier, to the said WQliam 
Kirkus ; to whome when he, this examinate, had redd it, and the 
said William Kirkus had acknowledged the same to be his will, 
in the presenc of this examinate only, at that tyme this exami- 
nate then moved the said William Kirkus to send for neigh- 
bours, to be wytness to here ytt. And when Elizabeth Kirkus, 
his wyflfe, after his this examinate tarying ther an hower for 
wytnesses commyng, said that she had sent for John Todd and 
John Richerdson, which came nott; and the said William 
Kirkus then said, ** Yf they will not belyve you,^* naming this 
examinate, ^^ and the clarke,'' viz. William Heighington above- 
named, ^^lett them mend them wher thei cane.^' And this 
thyng was doon upon the Sonday at night ; for, upon the 
Satterday at night next before, a blast of sickness took the 
testator, William Kirkus, in this examinate's presence, by occa- 
sion wherof no wyttnesses was cauld for that night. 

He saith that he moved the said testator to make his will, 
according to his deuty prescribed in the Quene^s booke, and at 
no other procurement ; saing also that Elizabeth, his wyfe afore- 
said, moved the said William, hir husband, to make his will. 

He saith that he, this examinate, and William Heighington, 
was sent for by a wench of William Kirkus, whose name be 
cannott tell, for she, the said wenche, left worde for this exami- 
nate to goo thither. 

He saith that, byfore noone, upon Monday next after the 
Friday, Satterday, and Sunday, byfore by hym deposed, he, this 
examinate, was present with William Kirkus when John 
Watson, Myell Whit, and, as he remembrith, John Tod, moved 



214 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHBB 

the said William Kirkus to make his wiU^ to whome the said 
William Kirkus answered^ '' Heere is Mr. Vicar, which wold 
have me to make a will with great circmnstanc; and many 
maks a will that he repentith all the daiea of his life.'^ 

William Mblmbbbt. 

William Hbigbington of Kirkmerington, yoman, alias 
parish derke, aged 34 years. 

He saith that he remembrith well that, upon the Friday 
sennett next byfore the said William died, this examinate, 
being dark of Merrington, and warned the night byfore by one 
of William Kirkus wenches to provyd bread and wyn for a com- 
munyon, about 8th of tne doke in the morning this examinate 
and the vicar William Mellerbye came to the said William 
Kirkus house ; at which tyme the said vicar asked the said 
Kirkus of his welfair, who aunswered saing, ^'I thank God, never 
worse, for I am trobled in all partes of my body;'' to whom the 
vicar said then, ^'Will ye make a will?" and he, the said 
testator, aunswered and said, '^ Te, I will make a will.'' '^ And 
what will ye gyve to the poore man box ? " qooth the vicar ; and 
he, the said Kirkus, aimswered and said, '^ I gyve dayly to the 
poore, as other neighbours doith ; and therefore I will nothing 
to the poore man box." And then the said vicar asked the 
said Kirkus to whom he wold gyve his goods, and the said 
William Kirkus aunswered to his wyff, trusting that she wold 
be as good to his childe as to hir owne. '^ And who shalbe 
yoer executour ?'' said the aforesaid vicar ; and the said testator 
aunswered, *' Who but thei that have my goods." And then the 
said William's wyfe besought the said testator, hir husband, to 
sende for his frends, and make his will, and mak all things 
streight ; " for I will never be against yt." Att which tyme a 
pange of his sicknes toke the said testator, and then the said 
vicar said, '^ Lett us goo to the communion, and lett my boost 
advise hym what he wold say or doo afterwarde. And so, after 
the communion, the said William Kirkus gave this examinate 
the cupe to drinke ; and so he, this examinate, departyd, leving 
the vicar and testator and the said wyf at the table drinkinge 
together, and hard no more concerning the said William, aither 
afore or after, unto Sonday then next follow, that the said vicar 



ECCLB8IA8TICAL PROCEE]>INGS. 215 

tolde this deponent in the church of Merrington, that he, the 
said vicar, had put thois wordes in writinge that this examinate 
and the said vicar upon the Friday last byfore hard the said 
William Kirkus speake, concerning his testament and last will, 
which will he, this examinate, saw nott unto the Friday next 
byfore yt cam to be proved. 

William Heghington. 



CCLXXXIV, NoN Residence of a Prebendary of 

Durham. [C. f. 206.] 

26 Feb. 1570. Testes product! ex parte officii domini Judicis 
contra et adversus egregium virum magistrum Ricardum Long- 
worth, sacrse Theologiee Professorem, prebendarium octavce 
prebendee in ecclesia Cathedrali Dunelmensi, examinati per 
magistrum Robertum Swyft, in utroque jure baccalaureum, 
Vicarium in spiritualibus generalem ac Officialem principalem, 
in presentia mei, Thoms Knighton, notarii publici. 

Mr. Richard Marshall, notary public, of the city of 
IXurham, aged 44 years. 

He saith that, upon a Satterday to his knowledge the third 
day of Januarye, 1567, as appeirith to this examinate, lokinge 
upon the Register booke in this his examinacion, at after noone 
the same day, this examinate, amongest dy vers others, was pre- 
sent in the lowe part of the Chappiter house of the cathedral 
churche of Durham aforesaid, and as he, this examinate, sup- 
posith, at the installacion of the said Mr. Richard Longworth, 
for the Dean and the Chappiter ther beinge present and syttinge 
in ther accustomed places had ther banckett, as is accustomed, 
at the installacione of a prebendarye ; wherof this examinate, 
emongest other, had his part therof, or might have hadd. And 
senc that tyme this examinate haith reputyd and taken the said 
Mr. Richerd Longworth to have been a prebendarie in the 
aforesaid cathedral church, accordinge to the fame and common 
voic therof. And this deponent remembrith well that he haith 
sein the mandatum, under my Lorde of Durham seale, for his 



216 DEPOSITION 8 AND OTHBR 

the said Mr. Longworth stallacion, which this ezaminate regis* 
tred ip the register booke of recorde^ and shewith the same in 
this his examinacion. And as tochinge the nombre of the 
Dean and prebendaries being present at the admission of the 
said Mr. Longworth, ther was Mr. Dean hymself, Robert Sweyft, 
John Pilkinton, William Benett, John Rudd, Raffe Lever, and 
William Stevenson, prebendaries. 

He saith that, as toching the takeing of the oothes for the 
observation of the statuts of the Cathedral Church of Durham, 
by the said Mr. Longworth, or his procurator, he cannott 
depose ; for that he, this deponent, stood &rr off, as he haith 
predeposed, when Mr. Deane and the prebendaris was in ther 
seets, separatly conferring emongest themselves. Senc which 
tyme that he was named to be prebendarye this examinate, being 
contynuallye about the chirch of Durham, as the Register tfaerof, 
remembrith that the said Mr. Longworth was here but the spaic 
of one weik, or ther abouts, and no longer, to his remembranc, 
at what tyme this deponent dyd here hym preach in the said 
Cathedrall churche. And, as the report is, he, the saidMr.Long- 
worth, by the spaic abovesaid, haith continyed in the south 
parties, and yet dooth contynew ther; and, as this examinate 
belyvith, he, the said Mr. Longw(Mrth, haith had, or might have 
had, the proffects of his prebend articulate, as this deponent 
haith sein part theroff sent to hym by Mr. Robert Sweyft, above- 
said. Richard Marshall. 

William Lbs, clerk, minor canon, *^ necnon succentor,'^ 
26 years of age. 

He saith that about thre yere agoo nowe last past, in Janu- 
arye, he, this examinate, remembrith that he, with dyvers others, 
beinge present then and ther in the Chappitour house within 
the said Cathedral Churche, the Deane and certaine chappitour 
being present, Robert Sweyft, one of the said prebendaries, was 
installed in the queir for the said Mr. Richard Longworth. 

He saith that be was present in the Chappitour house when 
the said Robert Swyft, as procuratour to the said Mr. Long- 
worthe, toke ooth for the observacion of the statuts of the said 
Cathedral Church byfore he was installed : by all which tyme of 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 21 7 

thre yeres the said Mr. Richard Langworth haith bene^ and yett 
is^ absent in the south countre, by report^ save only that the 
said Mr. Longworth was twise here in Durham, remaining 
aither tyme a weik or ther about, and no more. 

William Lee* 
William Harding, clerk, minor canon, aged 58 years, and 
two other minor canons, depose to the same effect. 



CCLXXXV. NoN Residence op the Vicar of Nbw- 

burne. [C. f. 207.] 

Testes producti ex officio ad promotionem Georgii Cuthbert, 
literati, contra dominum Egidium RoHihson, clericum, vicarium 
de Newebome. 

John Blaikloke, of Newbome, in the co. of Northum- 
berland, Curate of Newbome, aged 25 years. 

He saith that he, this examinate, haith bein curat ther senc 
Mydsommer last, hyerd by the said Gyells Robinson, vicar ther, 
as he belyvith, not only by gathering of the fructs and proffets* 
ther, which this examinate haith doon for hym sence his said 
entrance, and also by the common report and fame of the parish 
of Newborne ; which prefects of the vicaridge, as x*** calve, x* 
hen, pig, and watermoney, x**^ fishe, he haith and doith convert 
to his owne use. 

He saith that he is not privy whither he, the said vicar, haith 
taken any corporall ooth to be personally present at his, the 
said vicaridge of Newborn ; but he, the said vicar, haith bein 
absent from the said vicaridge senc mydsomer last, save one 
moneth, to be reckned betwixt Lammas and Michelmas, and 
5 weiks betwixt Martlemas and Christehmas last ; and in all 
the tyme that he, the said Giells haith bein vicar ther, which 
this deponent thinks about 13 yeres, as yt is reportyd, the said 
Gyells Robinson haith not kept house or hospitalitie ; but when 
he commith, he is bordyd in the towne, and lyeth there. 

John Blayklocke. 

George Browne, of Lamidon, in the parish of Newborne, 
one of the churchwardens. 

He saith that, albeyt he thinks that Giells Robinson toke an 



218 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHBB 

oothe to lye on his lyring, yet he is not certain therof by any 
speciall meanes. Mary^ he never kept house at Newbome, but 
commith ther certain tymes in the yere, and tarieth ther some 
tyme more and some tyme less ; and he cannott saye that it is 
half a yere^ reckning all the tymes to gither^ notwithstanding he 
keipeth a curett ther. 

He saith that he haith hard tell that one Edward Erington 
did complein of the said Giells Robinson^ as report was ; and 
howe he haith bein admonished by my L. of Durham in the 
seanes or visitacions, he cannott depose. 

Signum -f Gbokgii Browne. 



CCLXXXVI. Suit for Restitution of Conjugal Rights. 

[C. f. 211]. 

Testss producti ex parte Isabellee Walker, uxoris Willielmi 
Walker, adversus prsedictum Willielmum, super obsequiis con* 
jugaUbus inter eosdem. 31 Jan. 1570. 

Richard Bell, of the city of Durham, yoman, aged 56 
years. 

He saith that they, the said William and Isabell, were marled 
in a church of Newcastell, but what churche he is not suyr of ; 
but he belyvith yt to be trew that thei were maried about the 
tyme articulat, for his this examinate's wyf was at the said 
mariadge, amongest other neighbours that went thither, which 
was in somer season ; and dwelte in house here in Durham to- 
gither as man and wyfe by the space of one yere, or more, 
which this examinate knoweth, for then he was ther neigbours 
and dwelte nigh them. 

He saith that they, the said William and Isabell, dyd not 
part by order of lawe or the auctorite of Court at that tyme* 
Mary, he saith that, at the Christen mas last byfore she tlie said 
Isabell went away to London, she toke out of the said William 
house one sheitfuU of nappery wair and apparell, and caried 
the same by her maid to one wedoo Whitfeild house ; and 
therupon the said maid came wepinge to the said William, and 
said that her dame was goon away, which was with others in 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 219 

this examinate^s house making meiye. At what tyme the said 
William caused serch to be maid; and she^ the said IaabeU:> 
and the said stuffy was gotten^ and she was put in prison that 
night. And after that she never came^ nor wolde come, in the 
said Walker house, or submitt hir self by any persuasion of 
neighbours. The which hir facte he taketh to be the last causa 
of their break. And she, the said Isabella taried and remayned 
in the towne of Durham, after that, to Fastyn^s evon then next 
after ; and came not to her said husband^s house. At which 
tyme she, the said Isabell, maid suit to this examinat and 
Lionell Smith to goo with hir to Mr. Cokkye, the officiall to 
Mr. Archedecon, who then sent for the said Wiliam Walker hir 
husband ; at which tyme she, the said Isabel], required a certain 
peic of money to here hir charge to London, and certain ap* 
parell, and she wold treble hym no more, sung that she was 
non his lawfull wyfe, nor he, the said William, non of hir hus« 
band, for she, the said IsabeU, was precontract with Ambrose 
Chapman in the presence of Mr. John and his wyf. Which 
apparell, and the some of 6s. Sd.^ or ther about, she, the said 
Isabell, had, and toke away with hir. In which tyme of absence 
of the said Isabell, the said William Walker and Elynour Wyl- 
kinson have nowe kepte hous to gyther 9 yere and moore at 
bed and horde, to this examinate's knowledge, being a neigh* 
hour, and was maried, by report, out of the dioces. And he 
saith further, that the said Elynour was wyfe to one Robert 
Wilkinson, which Robert was one naturall father to one Alies 
Wilkinson, W3rfe to the said William Walker. 

By me, Rychard Bell. 

Jasper Horbley, of the city of Durham, yoman, aged 56 
years. 

He saith that he, this examinate, being constable about 16 
yere agoo, William Walker came to this examinate betwixt 7 
and 9 of the cloke at night, and requierd hym in the King's 
name to goo to one Isabell Browne's house, and there to arreste 
the said Isabell Walker, the said William wyf, and to kepe her 
furthcomyng unto the morning. Wherupon this examinat, 
coming unto, the said house, found the said Isabell syttinge 
with one Symon Brake. The said Isabell said that she had 



220 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

come frome hir husband bycause he had bett her that day* 
And the said Symon said he taried with the said Isabell to the 
dead of the night were passed, that he might carye hyr to 
Mathew Ellyson, which was at William Kirkhous of Mering- 
ton, and that he wold cary hir to London. And so this ezaminate 
brought them and their burdens to John Frend's, and so to 
the castell to be impresoned ; sainge further, that he is sewer 
that Elynour Wilkinson articulate was wyfe to one Robert 
Wilkinson, smithe, who haith contynewed in howse with the 
said William by the spaic of 9 yeres ; and he belyrith they were 
maried to gither, but he knoweth not wheir. 

Jasper Horslby. 

George Wilkinson, of Durham, blaksmith, aged 3G 
years. 

He saith that he remembrith that, about the tyme articulate, 
she came home from Newcastel as bryde, and dwelt togither as 
man and wyf with the said William in the Balye, by the spaic 
of one yere. 

He saith that the said William Walker maryed this exa- 
minate's sister, by reson wherof this deponent was often tymes 
commyng and goinge to the said Walker house. And for that 
the said Isabell used evill and suspecius compeny in the said 
William^s absence, they two, the said Isabell and William, 
agreed very evill ; and she, the said Isabell, wold say often 
tymes to the said William, in the presence of this examinate, 
that she was non of his wyfe, and that one Chapman hadd her 
faith and treweth. And, after that she had lyved in the towne 
apart frome hym, the said William, she maid suit to Mr. Cocky, 
the officiall to the Archdecon, to have a releif of his goods. 
At whose request the said William Walker gave to the said 
Isabell 6«. 8^., so that she wold troble hym no more. Where- 
upon she, the said Isabell, went to London ; but he knoweth of 
no other partynge by law, but as he haith predeposed. Aiid 
further he saith, that the said Elynour, articulate, was one 
Robert Wilkinson, this deponent's father's, wyfe ; and that the 
said William Walker first maried one Alies Wilkuison, doughter 
to the said Robert, and suster to this deponent. And he be-« 
lyvith that his suster Alies was wyfe to William Walker whill 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 221 

the said Elinour was wyf to the said Robert Wilkinson^ his 
father, and that the said William Walker and the said Elynour 
hath dwelt to gyther as man and wyfe by the spaice of 12 
yeres ; and he belyvith that the said William and Elynour was 
maried in Northumberland, in a church cauld Horsle, by 
report. Gorge Wylkynson. 

Janet Dennis, of Durham, singlewoman, aged about 30 
years. • 

She haith knowne the said William Walker and Isabell his 
wyfe about 20 years sench, being about the same tyme ther 
servant, and dwelt within the Baliff of Durham, in the house 
next Mrs. Rackett. 

She saith that the said Isabell was an honest woman all that 
tyme abovesaid, for any thyng that this examinate knew to hir, 
day or night, being serraunt to the said parties about the spaic 
of halfe a yere, during all the which tyme ther was good 
grement bytwyxt the said parties, and she, the said Isabell, 
never detect of hordom with one or other, to hir, this exami- 
nate's, knowledge. Examined whether that she, this examinate, 
was privy or no to hir hordome with Conand Barton or Asley, 
or any other, and at such tyme locked the said William hir 
master to the doore, unto the said Barton or Asley, or others 
that used the said Isabell compeny for hordom, or for such lyke 
intent, were conveyed out of the backe doore over the wall ; to 
the which she, this examinate, answerith negativh^ by virtue of 
hir oothe. Examined whether she, this examinate, haith 
known the said Isabell to have bein so creweU, malicious, and 
so deadly an enymey to the said William that he was afraid to 
dwell and kepe house with hir, the said Isabell, or noo, or 
whither this examinate haith knowne the said Isabell Walker, 
or any by hir procurement, to have lyne in wait of the said 
William to kyll, mame, or hurte the aforesaid William at any 
tyme to hir knowledg ; this examinate saith nay, by hir truith, 
she never knew any such. 

She saith, upon hir ooth, that she never sawe the said Asley 
to hir knowledg in all hir daies ; and the said Barton, this exami- 
nate saith that she never sawe hym day or night within the 



222 DBP08ITI0NS AND OTH£R 

tmi William Walker^s doores; saing, to bir remembranc tbe said 
laabeU ase no geists, nor brewed to sell, that tyme that this 
ezaminate dwelt with hir : and that aither the said Barton or 
Aaley at any tyme dyd feir or threton the said William^ this said 
exikminate denieth utterlye upon hir oothe. 

She saith that she, this examinate, was borne in Northam- 
berlandj and was but a wench newly corned to Durham ; and 
that the said Will^m Walker's was the first house that she, 
this examinate, dwelt in in Durham. 

Signum -f jANSTifi Dennis* 



Witnesses on the part of William Walker, 

23 Feb. 1570. [C. f. 335.] 

Edmund Palmer, of Newcastle*upo&-Tyne, taylier, aged 
26 years. 

He haith known William Walker but senc Christenmas last, 
and the said Isabell, by the name of Mary Stathan, one yere and 
a half last past : which Isabell, alias Mary> came from London, in 
this examinate's compeny and his wyfe^s, with Robert Stathan, 
which this examinate toke to be hir husband. 

He saith that he cannott depose of any such daidly haitrett 
bitwen William Walker and Isabell articulate, bycause he haith 
never knowne them to have dwelt to gither, nor knoweth not 
of their usuadge, but by report. 

He saith that, about Mydsomer last, this examinate, serving in 
Capitain KnowelPs bande, at Barwike, under which capitain 
one Robert Staythan dyd also then serve, with whome one caul« 
ing hir self Mary, which he perceyvith nowe is oaulde Isabell 
Walker, kept house ther as man and wyfe to gyther. And a 
rumour being spreidd that she was a man's wyfe in Durham, 
Phillip Goondy, the auncient, and Richerd Towneshende, 
sergiant of that bande, cauld the said Robert Stathan and 
Marye byfore them, chardging hir to be an other man's wyfe, 
and not the said Stathance's. Wherupon she, the said Marye, 
in the presenc of this examinat, brought in Robert Sankkye and 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 223 

William Androwes, of the samebande^ whidi testified then and 
tber that they had bein at the mariadg of the said Maiye and 
Robert^ at the church without AUersgaytt, in London, which 
mariadg, they said, was celebrated at Bartlemew last was tow 
yeres. And further this examinat saith, that he haith known 
the said Roberte and Mary dwell to gyther in one house as main 
and wyfe, as this examinate and neighbours therabouts dyd 
take ytt. 

He saith that he cannott depose that hir, the said Isabel!, 
sought to dwell with hir husband, William Walker articulate, 
for his distruction. Mary, he remembrith that she reported 
at Barwik, after that she was out of hir treble ther, that 
she wold mak clame to hir husband William Walker, here of 
Durham, to se yf he wold gyve hir ought towerd hir chardge to 
Xiondon. Edmond Pallmare. 

Margaret Palmer, wife of the said Edmund, aged 30 
years. 

She haith hard the said Isabell report to this examinate, that 
in deyd she was maried to one William Walker, in Durham, at 
hir frind^s mocion; but for as moch as she was byfore betrouthed 
to an other man of Newoastell, and upon remorse of consqienc 
she sought a devorsement, and so departyd frome the said 
William Walker to London. 

She saith that, a moneth after Bartlemew tyd was two yeres, 
this examinate, being in London, was present at dyner the day 
of the mariadg of the said Robert Stathan and Mary, for by that 
name she was maried and cauld ther at a church without 
Aldergayt, and dwelt to gyther in Clarkin well, near the dwelling 
of this examinate. 

Sh(3 beliveth that he is neither so olde nor she so young, but 
that they may dwell to gyther. 

She is but a stranger in this centre, and ys not privy of any 
matter further than she haith deposed upon* 

Signum + dictee MAROARETiE. 

Thomas WttiTFBiLDE, of the city of Durham, draper, aged 
about 68 years. 

He saith, that as towchinge hir, the said Isabell Walker 



224 DBP08ITION8 AND OTHBR 

crowelnes, or seeking of his deaths he knoweth nothing. Maiy, 
he thinkith the said Isabell dyd not use hir selfe honestly to 
William Walker^ hir husband, for, as it was commonly reportyd 
emongest hir neighbours, she went twyse frome hir husband, 
once in this towne, being then baliffe, and one other tyme to 
Darlington. And at hir going to Darlington she had hir hus- 
band's licenc to fett money that she had borrowed of dyvers ; 
but one John Peirson, that caried hir thither, culde not bring 
hir home with hym. And yett afterward, at her home com- 
myng, the said William Walker, by intrety of neighbours, was 
content to take hir again. 

He cannott tell for what cause she came into the contree. 
He thinks that William Walker is more lyke to bett Isabell his 
wyf, then she the said William. 

Super interrog. He saith that he, this examinate, and his 
wyfe, was in Newcastell at the manage of the said William and 
Isabell, which was mailed in Allhallowes church ther ; and both 
at the offiring and at the dyner. Mary, he thinks he, this exami- 
nate, was in Henry Fallowfeld's house ther town at the mariadge 
and solempnizaoion betwixt them ; and for the manage of 
William Walker and Elyn Wilkinson he cannott depose, but 
only he was at supper that night with them emongeste other 
neighbours. Signum-f Hvloum Whitfbild. 

Gboroe Wi LKiNSON, of Durham, blaksmith, aged 34 years. 

He saith that he thinks in his conscience that she was not an 
honest woman, for that she haith kept unlawful company with 
one Barton and Asleye. He saith that he haith dyvers tyme 
come home with William Walker, being his brother in lawe ; at 
what tyme the said Asley and Barton being loked in his the 
said William's house with the said Isabell his wyf, she 
wold not open hym, the said William Walker, the dore, unto 
she had letten the said Asley and Barton furth of the garth end. 
Examined de tempore, he saith about 7 or 8^^^ of the cloke at 
night. And he thinketh William Walker was afraid of Asley 
and Barton, by hir procurement, as he haith hard the said 
William Walker say. Mary, for any fere that he was in of hir, 
he cannott depose. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 225 

He saith, as he haith said byfore, that he haith harde the said 
William say often tymes to this examinafe, being then his bed 
fellow, that he was afraid of the said William Asley and Barton, 

He saith that he haith harde yt reportyd that she partyd 
from the said William, upon agrement maid byfore Mr. Cockey 
for a peic of money, privatly, without any order of iawe. 

He saith he thinketh that she, the said Isabell, had rather 
haith the said William dead or alyfe, bycause she is maried with 
one other, and wold still contynew with hir lait husband ; and 
haith harde the said Isabell say that she was none of the said 
William Walker's wyfe, and thinketh that few will be suirtye 
for hir. 

He saith that William Walker is an aidgeman, and broken in 
labour, and not able to gainstand the said Isabell. 

Super irUerrog. He saith that by report the said William and 
Elyn was maried in a church cauld Horseley, in Northumber- 
land ; and otherwaies he cannott depose. 

He saith that he was in name with the said Elyn in the way 
of marradge, but not otherwaies. 

He saith that report was that William Walker bett the said 
Isabell ; he thinks by meains of hir evill wordes. 

Per me, George Wylkynson. 

John Freind, of Durham, laborer, aged 60 years. 

He saith that, towching Asley, he never knew hym ; but as for 
Conand Barton, he, this examinate, haith sein hym resort to the 
said William Walker house; that, although yt was an aile 
house, yett he thinks the said Conand repared thither more for 
the love of the said Isabell then for the aille, considering his, 
the said Barton's, demeanour; but for thretninge of the said 
William by Asley or Barton, he cannott depose. 

He saith that, if the said William and Isabell shuld dwell 
togyther, that the said William shuld then be in danger of his 
lyf, by the procurement of hir, or such as wold repare to hir of 
lyklyhold. 

He thinks that William Walker is not so aidged but that he 
might kepe hym self harmeless against hir, the said Isabell. 

Super interrog. He saith that by report the said William 
Walker »^as maried bothe with the said Isabell and Elyn. 



226 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

He saitb that ther was a reckning and report that the ssud 
William shuld kepe the said £lyn as his lemon byfore he 
maried hir. 

He saith that by report the said William Walker bett the 
said Isabell his wyfe, but yt was to litle ; and that he haith 
hard reporte of neighbours that he threatyned hir^ the said 
Isabella to cast hir over the wall at hys garth end. 

Signum + Johannis Fbeind. 

John Rackbtt^ of Durham^ gcn.^ aged 54 years. 

He saith that he thinketh William Walker might dwell with 
hir^ the said Isabell, without danger of his lyfe. Howbeyt he 
haith hard hir say byfore Mr. William Cockey and John Tailfeir, 
that rather then she wolde aske hym, the said William, forgyve- 
ness, she hadd rather se his throte cutt ; bat he thinkith of his 
treweth that she wolde not do as she said then in hir anger 19 
yeres agoo. 

He thinketh that yf she dwelt with hym, the aaid William, 
he might salrely dwell with hir. 

He thinketh William Walker ys sufficiently able to curry * 
the said Isabell, yf she were with hym. 

Jhon Rakbtt. 



CCLXXXVIL Christopher Robson against Kathe- 
rine Marshali^ in Causa Matrimoniali. [C.f. 212 b.J 

Edward Robson of Newcastle, tanner, aged about 50 
years. 

The said Christofer is his naturall son, and the said Katherin 
Marshall about 12 yeres last past he haith well known. 

He saith that the said parties this examinat haith hard talk 
of mariadg to be had bytwixt them, in this examinat's house in 
Newcastell, about the third day of January, anno Domini 1569% 
last past. 

This examinate thinks that article (the second) to be trewe ; 
for the said deponent remembreth well that, the said third day 

♦ ruyll (rule), interiined. 



EC<3LESIASTI0AL PROCEEBIXOS. 227 

of January preearticulate, the said Katheren and Christofer, 
being bothe in this ezaminate's house^ about 6 or seaven of the 
cloke that night after supper^ the said Katherine^ talkinge vrith 
tbis deponent of the matter of mariadge to be had bytwixt the 
said parties^ she said that she wold aither be the said Christofer 
wyf that night, or not at all. And this deponent moved her 
to confer with hir firends, as he wold also consyder therof. 
And she said she was at apoint in that matter, yf this exami- 
nate wold give his sone 20 markes. And he, this examinate, 
tolde hir of his great chardg, and promised fyve pounds; and 
more he culde nott well gyve ; and she said that she was there- 
with content, and with his further offers to make hym free of 
his scienc, the tanner craft. And ther upon the parties dyd 
contract them selves per verba de prsesenti, as is articulate, 
videlicet, ^^Here I, Christofer, take yow, Kathren Marshall, wedo, 
lait wyf of Percival Marshall, to my weddyd wyfe, and forsaiks 
all woman for yow duringe my lyfe ;'' and she, the said Kathren 
said, ^ Here I, Katherine, taikes yow, Christofer Robson, to 
my weddyd husband, duringe my life;" and no more that he 
can tell of. Examined whither they dyd pleight ther ther 
treuthes at that tyme to gyther, or no, he, this examinate, saith 
that they dyd ; and therupon toke hands and dranke to gyther, 
and also kissett to gyther often ther. Examinatus de circum- 
stantibus, he saith, Roger Davison, skynner, and Margaret his 
wyfe, and no moo. Examined who sent for the said Kathren, 
or upon what occasion she cam thither that night, he saith 
that he cannott certainly depose ; but he thinks she came for 
matrimony. 

He saith that, by the spaic of sex wekes after the tyme prae- 
articulate, the said Kathren came dyvers tymes to this exami- 
nate's house to supper, as he, his son, and sone-in-law, was at 
hir, the said Kathren's, house att supper also ; and at sondry 
tymes, bothe in this examinate's house as in hir the said 
Katherine's house, the said Kathren haith acknowledged hir 
self to be contracte as abovesaid. 

He saith that ther was a rynge gyven by the said Kathren 
to the aforesaid Christofer, and he gave another ring also to 
hir. And he remembrith well that he, this examinate, dyd se 

q2 



228 OBPOSITION8 AND OTHER 

the said Katherin gyve the said Chiistofer a ringe of sylyer, bat 
whither it was gilt or no he cannott depose. 

Super kUerrog. He saith, as he haith predeposed, that he is 
naturall father to the said Christofer^ and he knoweth none that 
moved the matter so moch as hir self. 

He saith that he is worth SOJE, debtless, of his own goods ; 
and the said Christopher, at the tyme prearticulate, worth 20 
nobles, and now not worth 20^. 

He thinks that the said Katherin was worth then of hir own 
goods 10£; and her lands, videlicet houses, 4jC a yere, or 
better. 

He thinks that the sud Chistofer had bein as good a bargain 
then as she was, yf the matter had goon forward. 

Signum -f Edwabdi RpBSON. 

CCLXXXVIII. Misconduct in the Church op Wol- 

SINGHAM. [C. f. 7^*] 

Examinacio Lionelli Nevill. articulis ex officio adversus 
ipsum propositis. 

LioNEiiLUS Nevill,* de le Esshes, juxta Wolsingham, in 
com. Dunelm. generosus, aetatis circiter 30 annorum. 

Fatetur that, at the tyme of morninge praier of the said 
Richard Rawling, about the tyme libellat, this examinate came 
to the said Richerd Rawlinge, beinge at the divine servic, saing 
the said morning praier, and requiered hym to put off his 
surples, according to the will of the XXHII. of the parish, and 
gyve the sam^ to S'. John Peirt, articulate, to saye furthe the 
morninge praier ; and thes words, and no other, thys examinate 
said to the said Richard, without countynanc of anger or evyll 
behavour ; and the young man then toke yt well and found no 
faullt, and delyvered his said surples to William Trotter, one 
of the churchwardens ther, and he gave yt to the said S^. John 
Peir {so), whiche said forth the servic and communyon, and 
the said Richard receyved the communyon that same day 
with the said S^ John. And for christening of any childe that 

* See Surtees^i Hist, of Durh. vol. W. p. 163. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 229 

day this ezaminate cannott depose^ and yett he knowledgith 
hym self that he dyd fault and with wrong, and contrary to 
the Quene's statuts^ and is right sorye for the same. Exa- 
mined whither that he dyd thretyn the said Richard Rawlinge 
to pull his surpless of his bake^ or no, negat penitus, saing 
upon- his conscienc he ment no harme in his doinge or saing 
at that tyme, being sory that upon any such ygnorance that 
this examinate said so moch as he dyd, and haith here con- 
fessed^ seinge that yt was against the Queue's procedings ; saing 
further that he thinks that Richard Rawling wyll excuse hym 
of this article. 

Testes producti ex parte officii contra Lionellum Neyell. 

[lb.] 

Robert Hartley of Thomeley^ near Wolshingham^ yoman^ 
aged 50 years. 

He saith that at the tyme articulate this examinate was in 
his parish churchy at his praiers, at what (tyme) the said Lionell 
Nevill and the said Richard Rawlinge^ articulate^ was at com- 
municacion and high words about chrystining of a child ; in so 
moch as the parish clud about them, unto the church warden 
found faut j and this examinate, being in Mr. Bowes^ porch,* 
cam from thenc to her what the matter was, at what tyme the 
said Richard Rawlinge was putting of his surples. Examined^ 
what wordes he hard them speake at that tyme, nescit deponere. 
Examined, who christened the childe then, he saith that S^. 
John Peirt did christen the said childe. Examined de tempore, 
he saith^ to his remembranc^ upon a sonday, at the hynder 
«nde of the morning praier. Examined whither that Lionell 
Nevill said and commandyd then the said Rawling to put of 
the surples, that the said S^ John might christen the childe, or 
ells he wold take yt of the said Rawling's backe, he saith upon 
his ooth he hard no such wordes. 

* Sir Gteoige Bowes, for his serviceB in the Rebellion of 1569, had obtained a grant 
from the Crown of the forfeited estate of Bradley Hall in the parish of, Wolsingham, 
and along with it a porch in the church, which is here beginning to be called " Mr. 
Bowes^B Porch. 



230 DBP08ITION8 AND OTHER 

Examined whither he, this examinate, haith hard the said 
LioneU command the said Raulinge, yf he wold doo any servic, 
to do yt in the quere^ or not in the bodye of the churche, he 
saith that he canot depose of thoise wordes. 

Signnm + Robbrti Hartley. 

William Ranoldson, of Wolsingham^ aged 29 years. 

He saith that he, this examinate, being parish clerk ther, dyd 
se the said Richard Rawling do the morning praier, about the 
tyme articulate, very decently and orderly, without any inter- 
ruption of any man, for. this examinate helpt the said Richard 
on with the surples, and was present with hym all the Said 
tyme of the morning praier. Mary, immediatly then next 
after the said praier being doon, this examinate went to ring 
the bell to the communion, and frome thenc went to the per- 
sonage to fett the communion cup ; and at tiiis examinate's 
comming again to the said church the said surples was of S'. 
John Peirt, but which was sapng the communion or comikie- 
moracion in the boddy of the church. Examined whether he> 
this examinate, haith hard the said lionell Nevill say or speake 
any such uncomly words to the said S^ Richard Rawlinge as ys 
articulate, he saith, upon his othe, that he never hard the 
said Lionell speake such wordes as ar articulat or any such 
lyk. Examined who christened the child articulate at that 
tyme, he saith Sir John Peirt, to his remembranc, for the 
same Sir John dyd all the servic that forenoone after the said 
morning praier. 

He saith that the said Liondl Nevill, the tyme articulate, 
when Sir Richerd Raulinge had the sUrples on, and was at the 
communion table, cam to the said Sir Richerd, and desyred 
hym to put off his surples, and gyve yt to Sir John Peirt, to 
do the service, as be had doon byfo^e, unless he hadd my; 
Lorde suffragane^s * letter, or admitt to serve the parish, as 
the other preist was. It was in the tyme bytwixt the morning 
praier and communion tyme. 

WiLLM. RaNATSON. 

* ThomM Sparke, formerly a monk of Durham, and snffivgan bishop of Berin4ck 
under the Act of Henry VIII., was at the present time rector of Wolsingham. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 231 

Richard Rawlinge^ of Stanhop^ clerk^ aged 26 years. 

He was disturbed by the said Lionell^ in tyme of dyyine 
servic, as well concerning the surpless articulate^ as also 
tochinge the christening of the said Byerle^s childe^ which fa6t 
was presented by this examinate and the church wardens then 
beinge. Per me Richard cm Rawling. 

William Trotter^ of Wolsingham^ laborer^ aged 60 years. 

This examinate^ being in the churche of Wolsingham, bytwixt 
the morning praier and communion, the said Sir Richard Raw- 
linge standing at the communion table ther^ reddy to cristen 
the childe articulate^ John Bierlay, the father theroff, said that 
the said Richerd shuld not christen his childe ; and therupon 
the people came to gither, and then the said Lionel Nevil com- 
mandyd the said R. Rawling to putt of the surples, and so 
Rawling dyd immediately, and then the old preist. Sir John 
Peirt, put on the surples and christened the said childe. 

Signum + W. Trotter. 



CCLXXXIX. Brawling, or Misconduct in the church 

op WOLSINGHAM. [C] 

The personal answer of Arthur Chapman of Wolsingham, 
blacksmith, aged 30 years. . 3 Feb. 1570. 

He saith that, upon S^ Mathewe Day last, he, this examinate, 
was in the church of Wolsingham, the tyme of the morning 
praier; at what tyme this deponent was redinge of an ynglish 
boke, or prymer, while as the preist was saynge of his servic, 
no myndynge what the preist redd, but tendynge his own boke 
and praier. Mary, he redd not allowde to the hynderenc of the 
preist, to his knowledg ; but the preist, after the first lesson, 
willyd him, this examinate, to reid mor softly : to whom this 
examinate answered that he wold mak amends for that fault, 
and further this examinate said nott. Arthur Chapman. 

The personal answer of John Lahorn of the same, laborer, 

aged 20 years. 

He saith that^ upon Christenmas evon last, he, this exami- 
nate, came to the church ther, and brought one crowe into the 



232 DBPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

said church byfore service ; and one William Maiiey toke the 
said crow of this ezaminate and threw the same into a porch 
ther; and he saith^ upon his ooth, that he knoweth not whoe 
putt the straw through the said crowe's nose» and dyd not with 
the said crow perturb the servic, then being unbegun* 

John Labobne. 

The personal answer of Abthur Chapman ad positionem 
additionalem. 

The said Arthur saith that he had a primer in english, which 
he haith had a twelvemonth and more ; which primer is in this 
Juge's hands, and which he, the said Arthure, haith used to 
prai on, and at such tymes as he now is blamed for. And, yf 
yt be against the Queue's lawes, he submitteth hymself to the 
correction of diis court ; and to the rest of the article he haith 
answered the same byfore. 

The personal answer of William M ablet* 

He saith that, upon Christenmas evon last,byfor the morning 
praier, John Laborn brought a crowe into the church, byfor 
the servic, which this examinate toke into his hands, and put a 
strawe crosse in her mouth to se how she culd flye ; wherat 
the minister said, ^^ Tt is a shame for to bringe any suche to the 
church ;*' to whom Laborn answered, " Yt is well yf ye doo no 
worse." And this examinate willd the minister to go to servic, 
and the crowe shuld not treble hym. 



CCXC. The Will op Beatrice Allein. [C. f. 216]. 

Testes producti ex parte magistri Johannis Blaxton,* armi- 
geri, super factione Testamenti sive ultimse Voluntatis cujusdam 
Beatricis Allein, singlewoman, nuper de Blaxton, alias de 
Stokton, defunctae. 

Robert Blaxton, of Norton, clerk, aged 36 yeres. He 
saith he haith knowne hir this 20 yeres, at Stokton and Blaxton 
togyther. 

Super factione Testamenti praedicti, which was redd in the 

* See a pedigree of the family of Blaxton or Blakiston, Suriees, vol. iv, p. 162. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 233 

Courts arid is of his own hand writyng^ he saith that all and singn- 
ler thyngs conteyned therin is trewe ; sainge further that he, this 
examinate, was sent for by Mrs. Blaxton, 12 Febr. 1565, and 
upon hir mocion dyd visyt the said Beatrix, then very sicke ; 
and after such tyme as he, this examinate, had gyven hir Kis 
goostly counsaill, and after she had received the communion of 
this examinate, she, the said Beatrix, was willinge of hir self to 
make hir will, and moved this deponent to write the same in 
the forme that it is nowe exhibyted in the court, and byfore the 
wyttnes named in the same ; all which contents aforesaid she 
utterd of hir own mynde, saving that this examinate asked hir 
what she wolde doo with hir house in Stokton, and the said 
testatrix answerd that she wolde gyve all hir right and tytle to 
John Lilbom,. making four fatherless and motherless children, 
being hir cosings, hir executours. 

He saith that, to the uttermost of his knowledge, she, the 
said Beatrix, was of perfecte remembranc, and nott madde; 
which thinge he well remembred by that that she spak dis- 
creetly, and caulde to remembranc that hir mother had gyven 
and bequethed 5^. or 6s. Sd. for the repairing of Stokton causye, 
and something towerd Stokton church, which she requierd Mr* 
Blaxton to pay and dischardg. 

He saith that, with one yere next byfore the making of the 
said will, she, the said Beatrix, was raving madd ; but she was 
moche staid in hir wytts within one quarter of a yere after hir 
commyng to Blaxton ; and within one half yere next byfore the 
making of the said will, the aforesaid Beatrix Allen was very 
quiet, and so contynued to the day of hir deathe. 

He saith that the said Beatrix dyd none of thoise things 
conteyned in the said interrogatorye, but sat very quietlye. 

He knoweth not yett who shall heir his chardges, and he is 
worth, debtless, 20 nobles. Robert Blaxton, Curate. 



CCXCI. The personal answer of Thomas Wawton in 

CAUSA MATRIMONIALI. [C. f. 224]. 

Thomas Walton, of Emsought, in Austenmore, in the co. of 
Cumberland, and diocese of Durham, husbandman, aged 30 years. 



234 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHBB 

. He saith that, being fire frome bands of mairiadge, he was a 
suitor to the said Elisabeth aboute four yeres agoo ; and upon 
confereno with hir frends, for that this defendant dyd demaand 
in mariadg hir father's Surmdioldy which he refiisyd to graunt, 
his said suyt stayed^ and went no further* 

He believes that the said Elisabetfa dyd one writhe a gimer 
of this defendant's fyi^r, and put yt upon hir owne, and this 
examinate gave hir a pair of gloves, but he, this defendant, 
never gave hir any in any suche maner as in this posicion ys 
mensioned. Signum + THOMiB Wawton. 



CCXCII. Thomas Solyb and William Hbadly against 
Agnbs Smith, in causa matrimonial!. [C. f. 225]. 

TssTKS product! ex parte Thomas Solye adversus Agnetem 
Smith. 

Jamss Elmbdbin, of Rudbye, in com. Ebor.,gen., aged about 
50 years. Thomas Soley he haith knowen 20 yeres, and Agnes 
Smith sence Pentecost last past, and is not of kyne to neith^ 
partie. 

He saith that, upon Wytsonday even last past, this deponent 
rode with the said Thomas Soley to the said Margaret Smith 
house, as also at that tyme one Percivall Gibson dyd lykwes ryde 
with them ; which Percivall was the bringer of this examinate 
and Thomas Soley, abovesaid, to the said house. At what tyme 
they all thre was well taken withall, and welcome. And the 
said Thomas Soley was a suiter to the said Margarett for the 
goodwill of hir daughter, the said Agnes, at the said Percivall 
mocion, being the said Margarett kynsman. And after that the 
said Percivall and Margarett had talked secretlye togither, the 
said Margarett, in die presenc of this examinate, gave the said 
Thomas Soley hir good wyll of the aforesaid Agnes ; and there- 
upon they tow, the said Thomas and Agnes, talked togither about 
an houer of matrimonye to be had bytwixt them two, so audi- 
ently, that this deponent hard; also the said Margarett and 
Percivall might have hjurd them. Mary, the said Margarett, at 
ther departing, appointyd the said Thomas Soley to come thither 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDIbfOS. 235 

again upon Mydsomer evon^ then next after ; and in the mean 
time she wold talke witii hir friends, and then gyve the said 
Thomas an awnswer^ for that a wedoo man, as she the said 
Margaret then alledged^ was a suiter to the said Agnes. 

He saith that, according to the said Margarett appoyntment^ 

this examinat and the said Pttfcivall and Thomas Soley came all 

agayn to the said Mai^garef s hottse, at the Lawe aforesaid, ttpon 

the sidd Mydsomer evon last past, and was welkom, and had 

very good cheire ; and this examinat, being wery with ridinge, 

went to bed, and, being the awaike night, the said Percivall and 

Margarett the wyfe went to the waike fyere, which was a great 

way of in a banke syde,'!^ and left die said Thomas and Agnes 

togyther alone in the said hottse<i And yt was nigh daye when 

the said P^dvaU and Thomas cam to bedd to this deponent; 

and on the morow, being Mydsomer day, after breakfast, the 

said Margaret, in the hering of this examinat and the said Per« 

civall and other, said to the aforesaid Thomas Soley^ '< I plaid, 

you, Thomas, fair play yesternight f^ and asked then the said 

Thomas and Agnes, boming togither out of the foorehouse to 

the gait doore, ^^ yf they two were agreed ?'' and the aforesaid 

Thomas and Agnes aniiwered that they two wer agreed, so that 

they had fair^ the said Margaret's, good will ; to the which she 

answered, for hir part, she gave the said Thomas hir good will of 

the said Agnes as frely as God gave hir to hir. Wherupon the 

said Thomas Soley toke the said Agnes by the hand, and said, 

^ Here I give the my fidth and treuith^ and forsake all other 

women for tiie, so long as God E^nd us to lyve to gither/' 

And the said Agnes answered imnlediately even then to hym, 

^^ And I, Agnes> take the, Thomas, to my husband, and forsake 

all other for Ui^^' and so kyssed her, and put a ring upon hir 

fynger. And when thes things was doon, she requierd the said 

Thomas to oome again within a weik or a fortnight after, to be 

aquantyd with hir freinds, which intendyd to meit at a wedding. 

Signum + Jacobi Elmedbn. 
Percival Gibson, of Airsome, county York, butcher, aged 
34 years. He saith that he haith known Soley this 14 yere, and 
the said Agnes of a childe, being hir cosing garman, one degree 
removed. 

* <* two flyght shott oflf," trwtd. 



236 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

He saith that, haying occasion to ride to Stagshawe Bancke,* 
he> this deponent, came to Margaret Smith's house, being his 
ant's doughter, in companye with the said Thomas and James 
Ehneden, upon Wytson eoven last past; and, meaning to prefer 
the sud Thomas Soley to one Isabell Smith hir doughter, being 
by chanch then maried, he comoned and talked with the said 
Margaret to bestowe one of hyr dowghters of the said Thomas 
Soley, having good farmehold to bring hir unto ; whereunto the 
said Margaret aunswered that hir doughter Agnes was in talke 
with one aged man of Medomsley, whome she liked not so well 
as the said Thomas ; and therefore, if they braik of, she culde 
be content that the said Thomas shuld be a suiter to the said 
Agnes. And so she, the said Margaret, wilde the said Thomas 
to come again upon Mydsomer evon, and he shuld have further 
answer. And when the said Thomas and Agnes had then talked 
togyther bytwizt themselves, they departyd ; and, this examinat 
and the said Thomas and James came home again, and was at 
this town of Durham at the markett. 

He saith that this deponent and the said Thomas Soley and 
James came agun to the said Margaret his said casing's house, 
upon Mydsomer evon last past, at what tyme the said Margaret 
was well content with their coming, and the younge man Thomas 
Soley was welkom to have hir good will upon hir said doughter 
Agnes ; and, after moch talke and conferens that this examinat 
and the said Margaret had that night, the said Margaret left the 
said Thomas and Agnes to ^ther in hir own house, and went 
hir self with this deponent to the waik fier. And in the morrow, 
she, the said Margaret, asked them if they two were agred ; and 
the said Thomas and Agnes said, ^^ Tee ;*' and in the presenc of 
this examinate the said Thomas and the aforesaid Agnes dyd 
pleight ther faithes togither, &c. 

Signum + Pbrcivalli Gibson. 

The personal answer of Agnes, alias Anne Smith, 5 Oct. 

1571. [C. f. 223 b.] 

Agnes, or Anne Smith, of the Lawe, near Medomsley, aged 
21 years, to the positions, &c. of Thomas Soley, of Cleveland, 

* A cattle fair has been for many oenturies held at Stagshaw Bank at Whitsun- 
tide, and is still much frequented. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 237- 

saith that at Wytsonday last the said Thomas Soley, riding to 
Hexham, cam to hir, this examinate's, mother's house, with one 
Parcivell Gibson, one of ther kindsfolks, where they lay all that 
night; and afterwarde, about Mydsomer then next following, 
the same Thomas Soley came again to hir said mother's house, 
with the said Percivall Gibson ; at what tyme the said Thomas 
requiered hir said mother's good will to be a suiter to this 
examinate ; whereupon he, the said Thomas, brake his mynde 
to this examinate. And otherwaies she, this deponent, beiyvith 
that article not to be trewe. 

She saith that, for hir owne part, she was betrowhed thre 
yeres agoo to William Headley, of the Woodsyd, byfore Eddy 
Symson and WiUiam Stevenson, in somer, at hir, this exami- 
nate's, mother's house, and so was not free to make the said 
Thomas any promes, nor made hym any such promes as is here 
Ubellat. 

He offered hir a pair of cloves, but she refused, and wold 
not take them. 

Witnesses on the part of Anne Smith, against the witnesses 
of Thomas Soley, in causa matrimoniali. [C. f. 370.] 

LiONELL Nevill,* of Wolsiugham, gen., aged 30 years and 
more. 

He saith he haith known Percivell Gibson about 12 yeres last 
past, being moch at one Christopher Blirthom, in Wolsingham, 
by the spaic of one halfe yere or therabout, during which tyme 
the said Percivall, goinge to Stokton, or therabout, brought a gray 
nag to the said Blithom, which the said Christopher Blithorn 
thought had bein Percivall's owne nag ; but at lenght one came 
that chalenshed the said nag. Wherupon the said Percivell 
fledd awaye for a longe tyme. And the said Christopher 
Blirthom agreed with the said partie, for that the said 
Percivall was a kyn to his the said Christopher's wyf, wherof it 
came also that, the said Christopher wanting shepe, the said 
Percivall was suspectyd for them. 

Signum + Lionelli Nevell. 

* See 4). 228, above. This and the following gentleman were stray branches of the 
great fomily of Neville of Raby, and yet only one of them can write his name. 



238 BBROSITIONS ANB OTHBB 

John Nbtill, of Whittynstaw^ in co. Northumb.^ gen.^ Bged 
about 36 years. 

He aaitb that, about fyre yeres agoo, this examinate hard one 
Robert Peirson^ then mylner of St. Andro AwUand mylne, a 
man of good credit, say that the said Percivall Gibson, hauntynge 
the compeny of certein suspectyd persons, was of eyill demean- 
our^ and countyd to be gyven to ydlenes and stelinge. 

John Nbvtll. 

Tbstbs prodttcti ex parte Willblmi Hbadlbt, contra 
AoNBTBiff Smithb, in causa matrimoniali. [C. f. 399.] 

John Simpson, of the Lawe, near Ebchester, in Co. Dar- 
ham, husbandman, aged about 30 years. 

He haith knowen both the parties abovesaid of children, 
being a dweller and brought up within one mille and a half of 
them bothe, daing that the said William and this examinate are 
brether and suster's children. Examined how long he, this 
deponent, haith known Thomas Soley, he saith that senc the 
tyme the said Thomas haith bein a suter to the said Anne, alias 
Agnes, viz. about a yeir or mor, and no longer. 

He saith that, about harvest this time 2 yeres now last past, 
this examinate caried a bowed grote and a bowed 2d. as tokens, 
sent by this examinate frome the said William, to the aforesaid 
Agnes, and delyrered the said tokens to the forsaid Anne, being 
then spynning in a little house within hir mother Margaret 
Smith dwhelling house ; at what tyme the said William told this 
examinate that the matter was so fartherlye bytwix them 2, the 
said parlies, that neither his frends nor hir frends can hynder 
the same, meaning in the way of mariadge; and at the deljrverye 
of the said tokens, this examinate hard the said Anne Smith say 
the same wordes. Signum + Johannis Sympson. 

Edwaro Stmpson, of East Lawe, near Ebchester, aged about 
32 years, being naturall brother to the said John Sympson. 

The said Thomas Soley he haith known senc Mydsomer day 
was a twelmonth last paste. 

He saith that he, this examinate, haith dyvers and sondry 
tymes harde the said William and Anne Smith talke togither of 



ECCLBSIABTICAL PROCEEDIXGS. 239 

mariadg to be had bitwizt them two ; and especially upon Pase 
monday was a twelmonth last past^ at after noone towerd 
evoningy as this examinate and William Headley and Agnes 
Smithe came from Ebchester towerd the sayd Lawe, wher 
they had bein making merye, they satt downe in one medow* 
close in Ebchester west feild; at what tyme, when the said 
William had axed hir howe she was mynded to them that she 
was lykened unto^ meaninge Andro Hunter, she answerd the 
said William Headley that she wold have nothing to doo with 
any of them, yf he wolde be the same man that he was byfore 
to hir; and he, the said William, said that he wold. Wher- 
upon he, the said William, toke the said Agnes by the hand, 
and said, ^^ And I forsake all other women for thi sake, and. 
[give] the my faith and my treweth/^ And she said the lyk 
to hym, that she wold forsake all men for hym, and gyve hir 
faith and hir troweth to hym ; and therupon the said Agnes 
toke a gold rynge of hir fynger, and gave the same to hym, the 
said William .Headley, and the said William gave then the said 
Agnes one bowed 6d. and bad hir put yt in hir purch. At 
which contracte and gyfts was present then Elizabeth Smyth, 
a singlewoman, and Christabell Androo, also unmarried, and 
no moo. 

He saith that, after that tyme, he, this examinate, thought in 
his consdens that they two were man and wyfe byfore God, 
and culde have no other. And frome that tyme forward they 
neither of them two layned* ytt; in so moche as the said 
William fisither and Agnes mother had meityngs for the setting 
furth of goods in preferments of ther mariadge. And also this 
examinate tolde Thomas Soley, at Lammas was a twelmonth, 
that he culde not have the said Anne in mariadg. 

Signum + Edwardi Stmpson. 

Elizabeth Smith, singlewoman, sister of the said Agnes, 
aged about 21 years. 

She saith, that upon Monday in Easter weike last past 
was a twelmonth, at after noone, towerd night, coming home- 
ward frome Ebchester, wher they mayd meiy, the said William 
Headley came agaytward with the said Agnes, this examinat, 

* Concealed. 



240 DBPOSITION8 AND OTHBR 

and hir precontest, ESdward Sympson, and in their way satt 
down in a medow in Ebchester west feiide ; at what tyme the 
said William Headley and Agnes Smith dyd betrowth them 
selves th'one to th'other, the said William sayinge thus, ^^ Anne, 
thou hast had many suiters, and wilt thou forsake all other 
men and take my parte ?'^ and she answerd, '' Te, by my trewth, 
will I ;'' and then aither of them toke other by the hand, and 
plight ther trewith togithers ; and she gave him a gold rjrng 
oate of hir pursh, and he, the said William^ gave hir one bowed 
peic of silver ; and further she cannott depose. 

She, this examinate, never hard hir suster after that tyme of 
contracte taUce of that matter ; saing also that yt was layned 
also for their mother unto nowe of lait. 

Signum + Eliz. Smith. 

Christabell Andro. Memorandum, that the 13th of 
December examined 

Christabell Andro, of Ebchester, singlewoman, being sworn 
the same day, ad informandum animam Judicis,.to say what 
she knew toching the contract of mariadg bitwixt WUliam 
Hedlye and Agnes Smith aforesaid, that, upon Monday in 
Easter week was a twelmonth, she, this examinate, with others 
abovenamed, was present in Ebchester west feild, sytting ther 
upon the ground, sawe the parties contract and gy^e ther faith 
and trewth to gither one to th'other ; and the said William gave 
the said Agnes one pair of glowes and a bowed grote, and she 
gave unto the said William one golde ring ; saing further that 
none knew more of ther two myndes then this examinat dyd, 
being a companyon to the said Agnes« 

Signum + Christabell^ Andro. 



CCXCIII. Janet Febrt against Martin Highe in 
CAUSA matrimoniali. [C. fol. 393.] 

Testes producti ex parte JanetcB Ferry, singlewoman, contra 
Martinum Highe, in causa matrimoniali, Jun. 1573. 

William Laborn of Comfurth, husbandman, aged 40 
years. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 241 

He saith that the said Janet this examinate haith knowne of a 
childe, being his neighbour's dowghter ; and the said Martyn 
Highe about 14 yere agoo; that he, the said Martyn^ was a 
suiteir, and came for the said Janett. 

He saith that^ about 14th yeres last past, this examinate was 
requiered by John Ferrye, the said Janett's father deceased, 
with many mo of this examinate^s neighbours, to recorde the 
handfastinge of the said parties, which was in the said Ferry 
fauld, upon a Sonday after dyner; for this examinate, and all 
other that was requiered to the said handfasting, dyned that 
day at the said Ferrye house to the nomber of 4 mes, what of 
the man's partie and of the said Janef s. At which tyme one 
Lancelot Ettes, a very elderly man, dyd handfast them. And 
firste he asked them 2, the parties, at the same tyme, in the 
presence of this examinate and all other neighbours, whither 
they 2 were free from all promesse, and might plight ther faith 
and trewth the one to the other. And the said Martyn and 
Janett answered that they were. And thereupon, at the 
bydding of the said Lancelott, the said Martyn and the said 
Janett dyd willingly take hands togither, and aither of them 2 
dyd pleight ther faith and trueth to the other, as man and wyff, 
byfor God, after the contry manner, as frely as ever this exami- 
nate hath done at the church doore, which haith ben twise 
maried. Examined de ^^ verba depreaentiy^ he saith, that he, this 
examinate, hard not to his remembrance all those words spoken 
after that sorte, but aither of them 2 did gyve other their faith 
and trough. 

He saith that after that tyme, by the spaic of one hole yer, 
the said Martyn resortyd to the said Ferry house, and receyved 
33 sheip, one meir; and haith confessed hymself after that 
handfasting tyme to be the said Janett husband, and was asked 
thrise in the church with her, and the day was appointyd for 
mariadge. 

William Brasse of Billyhall, alias Billy Rawe, near 
Brancepeth, husbandman, aged 40 years. 

This examinate was requested by John Ferry, the wench 
father, and one Richard Brian, to come to the handfesting of 
the said parties ; and so this examinate dyd, and was at dyner 

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242 DBPOSITIONS ANB OTHEB 

among many other neighbours ; and that Lancelott E jttes^ the 
said Janett grandfather, dyd handfast them. 

Richard Brtan of the Bi^yn, near Brancepeth, husband- 
man^ aged about 60 years. 

He saith that he haith knowen the parties off children, the 
said Martyn being his neighbour barne, and the said Janet 
being John Ferry, this ezaminate brother in lawe, doughter. 

This examinate,at the request of the said John Ferry, came with 
the said Martyn Hygh to the said hanfesting, wher at that tyme 
was in their compeny Thomas Highe, the said Martyn father, John 
Highe of Taddo, the said Martyn uncle, and Richard Pinkmen, 
that maried the said Martyn suster ; all which upon a Sonday, 
about 14 yeres senc, cam to Croxdaill to servic, and to the said 
Ferrye's to dyner ; and when the said dyner was doon, Lancelot 
Ettes, grandfather to the said Janet, cauld of Martyn Highe 
and said to him in the said Ferye^s fauld garth, standing 
against the bame wall ther byfore his father and uncle and all 
theneghbours that was ther present, to the nomber of 18 per- 
sons, said, ** Mary, nowe that we have dyned, I wold yt were 
known the cause of our meityn,'^ and cauld the said Martyn 
" cosin,'^ sainge, " Ar ye content here to this yong woman, my 
dowghter, to your wyffe ?" and Martyn answered then that he 
was well content so to doo, in the presenc of the said Janett, 
agreeinge well therto ; and therupon they two dyd take hands 
to gither, and aither of them dyd plight their faith and truth to 
the other. Examined de ** verba de presenti/* he saith thoise 
words was undoubtydly spoke of both parties after the said 
Lancelott, which dyd handfest them, and sayd so moch to them 
ther upon that one might have goon a mile in the spac. 

Signum + Ricardi Brian. 

CCXCIV. Sbntentia in causa convicii. [C. f. 333, b.] 

In Dei nomine. Amen. Nos, domini Episcopi Officialis, 
legitime procedens, te Johannem Davison, parochiee de Billing- 
ham, ad promotionem Jobannis Martyn curati ibidem, in causa 
irreverentiee tuse sive convicii contra eundem dominum Curatum 
perperam maliciose et sacrilege probati et judicialiter confessati, 



BCGLS8IAST1GAL PROCEBDINGS* 243 

dicendo eidem anglice, ^' Thou art a vacobound^ a wagwallett, and 
syde-tayled knave/' in contemptum Regiarum injunctionum, 
excommunicamus, in scriptis^ &c. 



CCXCV. Anne Grynwill against Rouland Gronndyb, 

IN CAUSA MATRIMONIALI. [C. f. 349 b.] 

Alice Stevenson^ wife of Robert Stevenson of Bemish park 
head^ husbandman^ aged 37 years. 

She saith that abouth Trenitie Sonday, in the yere of our 
Lord 1570, the parties appoyntyd bytwixt them selves to come 
to this examinate's house^ for this examinate being at a kirkall 
at the said Anne father's house, she, the said Agnes, then told 
this deponent that the said Roland and she the said An had 
appointyd to come to this examinate's house the same day. 
And thereupon this deponent maid more haiste home ; and 
comminghome she found Roland Grundye and this examinate's 
husband togither, and then, after, she the said Agnes, alias Ane, 
came also to this examinate's house ; and betwixt one of the 
doke and 3 at afternoon the same day this examinate's husband 
and the said Roland lay of one bedd togither in this examinate's 
beddchambre; and the said Roland cauld for the saide Anne, when 
he hard hir tunge, and she cam to hym. And he, the said Roland, 
toke the said Ann by th'and in the presence of this examinate and 
hir husband, and said to hir thes wordes, to this examinate's re- 
membraunce, '^ Here, Anne, I gyve you my faith and my trewth 
to be your husband." And she, the said Agnes, in lyke manner 
immediatly answerd and said, ^^ Here I gyve you, Roland, my 
faithe and my trewth to be your wyfe." And then they 2 
kissed and drew hands. And thereupon the said Agnes gave 
hym, the said Roland, then one gold rynge with a stone in ytt. 
And he, the said Roland, tyrled ytt bytwixt his fynggers, and 
ever lokyng at yt. And shortly after the parties had mayd 
mery in this examinate's house, that night the aforsaid Roland 
and Agnes, this examinate and hir husband, went all to the said 
Ann father's house togyther, where they supped togither, but 
ther was no communicacion then of that matter, bycaus that 

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244 DBPOSITIONS AND OTH£R 

ther was certain strangers ther. And at ther coming home the 
said Roland tolde this examinate and hir husband that he wold 
stand to theise words that he» the said Roland^ had spoken to 
the said Anne Orinwell in the way of matrimonye that day as 
aforesaid as long as he culd speak. 



CCXCVL Isabella Batkbb, wipb of William Baikeb, 
AGAINST Thomas Hall op Durham, dbapbb, in causa 
coNVicii. [C. f. 356.] 

Nicholas Tubptn of Durham, yoman, aged 46 years. 

He saith that upon a Sonday, in the yere articulate, and in 
one or other of the moneths named in the said article, but which 
one of them certainly this examinate cannott depose, this 
examinate, comminge to the Cathedral church to the sermont, 
mett the said William Baiker alsoo comynge to the said church, 
nigh a thome tree at the meitynge of the wayes in the church- 
yard adjoining to the said Cathedral church, the said William 
Baiker cominge frome his owne house, and this examinate 
coming • . • Place Grein. And, immediady then byfor the 
said William Baiker and • , • enteryd into the said Cathedral 
church, Thomas Hall came to them, and asked the said William 
Baiker yf he wold lett fiirthe his, the said Thomas Hall's, cattel. 
The said William, having then this examinate by the hand, maid 
the said Thomas no aunswere. And then the aforesaid Thomas 
HaU said to the said William Bayker, ^^ Wylte thou bothe kepe 
my cattail in the folde, and take a writt of me also ?*^ To 
whome then the said William spoke, " Thomas, will you confesse 
yt, I aske no more then that ye will bynde you to alowe V^ And 
evon then and thereupon the said Thomas Hall said, ^^ Goo, 
Bayker, thou art a knave, and thy wyfe a hoore/' And this 
examinate said, ^* Fye, thes ar no meet wordes or communication 
emongest neighbours." And the said William Baiker then toke 
recorde to this examinate, which was werye to here any suche 
words, and wold have bein goon frome them butt that tie said 
William Baiker had him by th'and, as abovesaid. This exami- 
nate was so o£fendyd at thoise words that he toke noheid who moo 



ECCLESIASTICAL PAOGBBDINGS. 245 

was ther^ bat the said unseming words was audiently spoken and 
in greiff. Nicholas Tdbpymn. 



CCXCVII. The personal answer of Christofer 
Stort^ in causa correctionis. [C. f. 359.] 

Christofer Storte, of Aisleyby, yoman, aged about 26 
years. 

He saith that he was in Eggiscliff the day, yere, and hower 
articulate. 

He sayth that he^ this examinate, spoke to the neighbours 
that satt by hym after this sorte, '* I hard say that ther is a 
minister set up in York that got all women with childe that 
lemed the catechisme ;'' and when S>^ George^ the curat, said, 
^^ I wold wysh you that ye meddled no more with me then I do 
with you.^^ And this deponent maid no more aunswer nor 
otherwaies. Per me Christofer Story. 

Robert Garnet, of Eggiscliffe, husbandman, aged about 
60 years. 

He saith that the day, moneth, and yeare articulate^ the said 
S' George Wheitley, ther curat, being in the pulpet in the said 
church of Eggiscliff and movinge all men to send ther 
chyldren and servants to leme the catichisme, the said Chris- 
tofer at that worde spoke to the said S^" George all the wordes 
articulate ; and ther upon the said S' Georg said to the afore- 
said Story, ** Yf ye be able to burthen me, I shall aunswer 
you;'* but Story gave hym no answer, nor moo words spake 
to hym ; saing* that, the said curet stemed no more, but taried 
still in the pulpett, and redd and went forward with his busynes, 
as he used to doo other hoUydaies. Examined whether the 
said Christofer spoke thoise words on hight, or no, he saith 
that he thinks that ther was about 40 persons or moo that hard 
thois words. Mary, they that was below in the church, this 
examinate saith that he belyveth that they hard not; saing^ 
that he spoke not thois wordes in any greiff, but rather in' 
boorde. 

* Seeing 



246 DEP08ITI0NS AND OTHER 

He saith that he hym selfe is one of the churdi wardens of 
the said churchy and personally then present; saith upon his 
ooth that ther was many that hard as abovesaid, but none 
moved them selfes ther att, and that ther was none that maid 
any laughter ther at. Mary^ the said Christofer smyled when he 
spok as abovesaid. 

Signum + Robbbti Garnbtt. 



CCXCVIII. Tbstis productus supbr bxcbptionibus 
Alicia Marlbt^ contra Robbrtum Hutchbson^ ac 
codicillum in causa lbgati. [c. f. 3730 

Anthony Whitfbld^ of the city of Durham^ tailyer, aged 
34 years. 

He saith that he^ this examinate, haith known the said Robert 
and his brother Anthony Hutcheson departyd 20 yeres and 
more^ and the said Alies Marley senc this travers begane ; that 
he^ this examinate^ delyvered hir^ being the said Anthonie^s 
executor^ one cote clothe of the said Anthony Hutheson, that 
this examinate had to make for hym. 

He saith that, as concerning the said codicel, this deponent 
cannott depose ; but he saith that, about Michaelmas last past, 
the said Anthony came hither to Durham, and requestyd this 
deponent to helpe hym, the said Anthony Hucheson, to by a 
cote cloth and a paire of hoose cloth, wherin he mynded to be 
maried in at that tyme. And so this examinate dyd, and 
bought the said cotcloth and hose of Thomas Hopper, servant 
to Thomas Whitfeild, his father in lawe. And, that doon, the 
said Anthony Hucheson dyd delyver the said cotcloth to this 
examinate, and wylled hym to make ytt against that tyme 3 
weiks, and somthinge shorter waisted byfor then his livery coot 
was, that this examinate had maid hym, the said Hutcheson, 
against S^ Cuthbert daye then last past; and at that tyme 
recconed with this examinate and at a condicion with hym for 
fuchyn to the overbydye (? overbinding) of his said cote lyning 
for the neu^ bodyes, mochadoo for the cote, coUer, and hands, 
with syk (so) boottons ; and the reckning therof came to 5*. in 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 247 

the hole^ that the said Anthony and this examinate agreed upon. 
And tberupon this deponent promised to make the said cote 
against that day threweik that A. Hucheson appointyd. And 
so this deponent toke measour of the said Hucheson^ and roove 
the lysts of the said cote^ and made a hoole therein^ and put 
this examinate's measour unto the same, and was fully myndyd 
to have shaiped the same and maid yt redye against the said 
tyme agreed upon, but that he, this deponent, hard by one 
Robert Tompson, that the said A. Hutcheson was sore sike, 
and tberupon this examinate staid the makyn therof ; saing 
further, shortly then after, and byfore that this examinate knew 
that the said Anthony was dead, the abovesaid Robert Huche- 
son sent to this examinate for the said cote, and he refused to 
delyver yt to hym, and send the said Robert worde that that 
said cote was not maid ; saing further that yt is the custom of 
this examinate^s occupacion, whenso ever any lyvery or cote cloth 
is cut off any webb, after that tyme to caule yt, that cote cloth, 
a cote, although yt be unmaid, and specially where the lysts is 
taken of the same and the measour of the same put • . • . 
and further, &c. Signum + Antho. Whitfeild. 



CCXCIX. On the part of Agnes, alias Annr Burden, 
wife of William Burden, against Elizabeth Ander- 
son, in a CAUSE OF Defamation. 17 May, 1572. [C. f. 

380.] 

Thomas Fewler, of Stokton, coteman, alias chapman, aged 
about 50 years. 

He saith that, about Candlemas last past, this deponent, 
being ther nigh neibour, was bringing in two stirks of his from 
the wayter into his owne house, at what tyme the parties was 
chidynge, and one of them revilinge the other. And this depo- 
nent then hard Elizabeth Anderson cauU the said Anne Burden 
" crowket handyd wytch.^^ He saith the words was spoken 
audiently there; ther might many have herd them, beinge 
spoken so neigh the crose and in the towne gait as they were. 

Signum + TnoMiE Fewler. 



348 DBP08ITI0NS AND OTHER 



CCC. Anthony Lbadhax and Elixabbth his wife, 
AGAINST Thomas Batlls^ in a cause op Defamation. 

[C. f. 386.] 

John Eastgait^ of Ankland episcopi, caller, aged 85 years. 

He saith that in Lent last past, what weike or day this exa- 
minate cannott depose, that he, this ezaminate, comming by 
Richerd Orene's house in Awkland, about 12 of the cloke at 
noone, the parties, yis., the said Anthony Leadham and Thomas 
BaOls, was in the said Recherd Greine his yarde, wheras at 
that tyme certain workemen was settynge up a wyndoo, which 
the said Baills was not content with, but, in a great radg, offerd 
to fray with them ; and that they shuld nott worke nor sett up 
no wyndoo ther : wherupon ther rose such dynne and crying 
of women and other, that this examinate rann in amongst them 
and reskew the fray; and, being a borrowman, brought the 
said Baills to the balif house, one John Todd's ; at what tyme 
this examinate hard the said Baills caule the aforesaid Anthony 
^^ cockold," saing, ^ Thou cockold, thou cockoldj I am myssused 
with ye both cockolds;" which words he, the said Baills, re- 
hersid still in the way to the balif house, and also byfore the 
said balife, being then sicke; and wold not cease nor be re* 
formed unto such tyme as the balif said, unless he held his 
peac and say no such words, he shuld goo to the stocks. 

Signum + Johannis Eastqait. 

Richard Htndmor, of Aukland, hatter, aged 27 years. 

He saith, that upon a Monday, in or about Mydlent last 
paste, this examinate was working in the place articulate wher 
the words was spoken, and hard the said Baills caule the said 
Anthony ** cockold,'* and '^ knave cockold,'' after thre or 4^^ 
tymes. He saith, that one Richard Grein articulate toke a 
lease of the said Baills and had paid his money for a house in 
Aukland ; and the said Grein was setting a workmah to make a 
wyndou in a backe house, being in the yard apperteyning the 
said house, and Baills came into the said garth and found fait, 
and was extrem angre, wherupon the workmen was myndyd to 
leave worke ; and for all the persuasion of the said Richerd, the 



SCGLB8IA8TICAL PROCBBDING8. 249 

said Baills wold not be content, but also rated and beknaved 
the said Richerd^ in the presence of the said Anthonys which 
said, ^^ What menes thou, thou evill man, to rait an honest man 
in his own ground, wher he puth rent for?'' To whom the 
said Baills said, ^ What haist thou to doo with ytt, knave ? 
thou art a cookhold, and ye ar a pair of cockholdlye knaves/' 

Rtchbbd Htmnor. 

RoBBBT DixsoN, of Hunwickc, yoman, servant of Anthony 
H ewton [Hutton]^ of the same, esqr. [f. 392 b.] 

He saith that, upon Tewsday next byfore S^ Cuthbert day 
in Lent last past, this examinate had occasion to be in the said 
Baills his shope at Awkland, to by cotton lyninge for this 
deponent's master's doublett, at what tyme the said Baills was 
newly commed home frome Torke ; and in ther 2 communica- 
cion he, the said Baills, tolde this examinate that he hadd 
browght process for his landslord, Richard Grein, and the said 
Anthony, and all the sort of them, and that he wold tye them 
all to the staike ; and this examinate at that tyme told the said 
Baills that yt was reportyd that he, the said Baills, should caul 
the said Richerd and Anthony *^ cokehold," and the said Baills 
then aunswerd and said, '* So I dyd, I will not denie : what 
thoo ?" And this deponent then said, '^Thinke you that they 
will not seike to have amens for that?" — ^' What mens," quod 
the said Baills, '^ can they have of me ? the most is, to ask for* 
gyveness." Rob. Digson. 



CCCI. Thb pbrsonal answbb of Thomas Cbawb, op 
Farnefbild, in Nottingham shibr, in the gountt 
(? diocbsb) of York, blacksmith, late dwelling in 
Wytton upon the Wbib, in the county op Dur- 
ham, in a cause of divorce. 12 July, 1572. [C. f. 394 b.] 

The said Thomas Crawe, aged 40 years, saith that he, this 
deponent, was maried in Claypoil, in Lyncolnshier, the tewsday 
next after S' Martyn day, in wynter, aither 17 or 18th yeres 
agoo, with Alies Harrington, articulate, which then dwelt with 
one S^ John Eastfielde, the preist and curat then of the parish 



250 OMP08ITIONS AND OTHER 

oburch of Claypoil, wbich carat maried this examinate and 
the said Alies solempny^ in the presenc of 20 persons and 
mo [ittiffible] remayne and dwell with the said Alies, as 
law^ man and wyffe togither, by the spaic of 2 yeres and 
more, and in that tyme had one man childe lawfully begotten 
of the aforesaid Alies, which died, being but 2 yeres olde. 

He saith that the said Alies is yett levinge, as is articulate, 
for this examinate was with hir and dwelling in house with the 
aforsaid Alies, within thes 20 dayes last past, in the towne of 
Famefeild articulate. 

He saith and confessith that this examinate, upon occasion 
of displeasour and hurt that this examinate dyd to one S' 
Henry. Peny, a preist and curate of Rampton, in Nottingham- 
shier, which suytyd and persewed this examinate by order of 
the lawe, which had drawn blodd of the said preiste, and 
obteyned his, this examinate, punishment by a justice of peace 
at Lanam, in the said shier of Notingham, and yett not therwith 
contentyd, wherupon this examinate was enforced to flee frome 
his said wyff and the countre, and came into thes north parties 
and unto the towne of Wytton upon Weyer, wher this said 
examinate's father dyd and yett doith dwell. And within one 
yere of this examinate's comynge thither, notwithstandinge the 
premises, being destitute of grace, dyd contracte hymself, and 
also about the feast of Pentecost, and to his remembrance upon 
Treinitie Sonday, nowe 10 or 11 yere last past, dyd also marye 
and take to wyff the said Alies Rose, and was maried with hyr 
in the churche or chappell of Wytton aforesaid ; and, under 
the pretens of the said ungodly mariadg, had unlawful! com- 
peny with hir, the said Ales Rosse, and begott one childe off 
her yett levinge, beinge a woman childe, to the great danger 
and perill of his soule. Signum + Thomjs Cbawe. 

Alice Rosse, of Hollinghall, near Wytton upon Weir, 
singlewoman, aged 32 years. 

This deponent was within this 1 4th daies in the towne of 
Femefeld, within the parish of Claypoile, and then and tber 
dyd se the said Alice Hardington, wyffe unto the said Thomas 
Crawe, who shewed this examinate that she had beine maryed 
with the said Thomas 18 or 19th yeares, &c. 



SCCLBSIA8TICAL PROCBSDINQS. 251 



CCCIL Alfcb Richerdson against John Riohbbdson^ 

HBR HUSBAND. ExGBPTIONS TO WITNESSES. 1573. C!* 

Thomas Hardtb, of Morpeith^ shomaker, aged about 40 
years. 

The said AUes is and haith bein an honest woman; saing 
also that he belyvith hir husband haith no just cause to be 
sondered from hir. 

He saith that John Bell^ articulate^ as this examinate bely- 
Tith^ is no sufficient wytnes ; for that bytwixt Christenmas and 
Easter last the said Bell dwelte with this deponent att Morpeith^ 
as his hyred man^ and for that he was suspecte of michery and 
untreweth^ conceminge a shirt of one Thomas Somer^ therfor 
the Alderman and his feUowes^ of the occupacion of shomakers 
ther^ put the said Bell from this examinate's service, unto such 
tyme as he brought them a certificat from NewcasteU concem- 
inge the said shirt, which to this day the said Bell haith nott 
doon. Signum + TnoMiE Hardte. 

Thomas Somer, of Morpeith, showmaker, and servaunt to 
Robert Turner, of Felton. 

He saith that the said Bell and this examinate was fellowes^ 
and dwelt at Morpeith with the said Thomas Hardye, his pre- 
contestis, bytwixt Christenmas and Easter last, in the which 
tyme this said deponent had his shirt goon, and maid moch to 
doo for yt ; and the said Bell moved this examinate to make no 
wonder for yt, and saide for a grote of this deponent's pursse 
he shuld cause the said shirt to come againe, saing that he, the 
said Bell, reportyd that ther was a wyff in NewcasteU, his 
cosinge, that culd torne the ryddle, &c. ; and within thre days 
next after this examinate found his said shirt that was a laking. 
And then the said Bell demandyd 4d. of this examinate, and 
this deponent wold nott agree to gyve the said Bell any thing 
unless he wold tell hym who had his said shirt he lacked. And 
upon this examinate's talk, and the said BelPs, there was such a 
romer in Morpeith that the Alderman and his fellowes of their 
ocupacion sent for this examinate and the said Bell, and in th' 



252 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHBB 

end they dischardged the said Bell frome workinge in that tonn, 
to be had brought them a certificat frome the said wyffe of 
Newcastell^ that she oonld tell of things that weir stolne* And 
for that the said Bell dyd not so within 20 daies next after, as 
he was apointed, nor at all to this day wold cleir hym selff, 
therfor this deponent belyvith the said BeU to be no honest 
man, or any sufficient wyttnes. 

Obobgb Hoppbb, of Oatished, glover, aged 36 years. 

He saith that the said Bell is a great Iyer, and taintyd of his 
tounge, denying his owne words byfore honest wyttnes, viz., 
Mr. Hodgson, the parson of Gratished, one John Beke, and 
other ; reportinge one tyme that this examinate wold have gyven 
hym, the said Bell, 20«. and a broddoth remnant, at another 
tyme 40*., to take ship and be noo wyttnes in the travers, and 
that one Frands Dixson and William Dixson shuld pay the said 
money, and that this examinate shuld be bound to see yt paid. 

Signura + Gboboii Hoppeb. 
[A loose paper at p. 407.] 

Be it knowen unto all men by this present writinge, that we 
wyll testyfye and record that John Bell did saye to Thomas 
Sumer, that yf he wold geve him 6 names of everye syd of his 
neighbours, and geve him 4d. that he wold geve a wyf of New- 
eastell that wold tume the redell, and geat him the shirt within 
a weack ; and the sheart dyd come within 3 dayes after, and then 
the brether did put him of warke hento suche tyme as he 
brought answear from that wyfe that she could do such things ; 
and he brought no answear in it, and so the brether cane saye 
no ne writing, the 24th daye of Novembre. 



CCCIII. Defamation. Helen Johnson, wife of Simon 
Johnson, against Geobob Allenson. [C. f. 401.] 

John Huntbb, of Medomsley, husbandman, aged 50 years ; 
partes bene novit a suis cunabulis. Upon his consciens he 
beliveth that the said Elinour is a veri honest woman, and so 
named and reportyd within the towne and parish of Medomsley 
of all the inhabitors there, saving hir owne husband, who, 



EGCLK8IA8TI0AL PROOBBDINGS. 253 

beinge a very suspedoos man^ haith some tyme audiently caulde 
the said Elinor " Skott's hore/^ 

He saith^ upon his oothe, that he never harde the said Allen- 
son say at any tyme any suche wordes as is articulate. Mary^ 
he saith, that^ about St. Elenmas last past^ to this examinate's 
remembrance^ the said Helen Johnson, by report, satt downe of 
hir knees in the church porche of Medomsley, upon a sonday 
or hallydaye, after servic, when many people was assembled 
in the church yarde ; at what tyme the said George AUenson 
came to this examinat, being then talking with one John Ste- 
venson, of Bierssyde, and requierd this examinate and one 
Androo Hunter to here what he, the said Allenson, wold say, 
and examon the said Helen upon which had satt down in the 
kirke porch, and asked a vengeance of hym, the said George. 
At whose request this examinate and the said Androo went 
with the said George to the aforesaid Helyn Johnson, and 
in the presence of 30 persons moo, then, this examinate and 
Andro Hunter questioned and examoned the said Helene, what 
fault he had maid hir or hir husband to ax a vengeaunce upon 
hym, the said George Allenson? to whome the said Helyn 
answerd and said then, '^whye dids thowe caule me ■ 
hoore ?'' and then the said Georg aunswerd hir, the said Helyn, 
and said, '^ Thou knowist best whither thou art a hore or noo : 
thou was never my hoore.'' And she, the said Helyn, still 
said that the said George had cauld hir so. And then the said 
Allenson offerd to make amends yf she culd bring in aither 
honest man or woman that wolde prove thoise wordes. ** Yeis/* 
quodth the said Symon, ^' Thou caulde hir hoore to my face at 
the well grein.^' And then aunswerd the said George and said, 
^^ Loke, what I caulde hir afore, that wiU I cauU hir againe ;'' 
and so the parties departyd. Examined whither he, this 
examinate, haith harde the said George caule the aforesaid 
Symon cookhold or noo, he aunswerethe negatively. 

Signum -f Johannis Hunter. 



254 DBP08ITI0NS AND OTHBE 



CCCIV* Agnbb Davison against Robbrt Pbirct^ in a 

CAUSE OF DIVORCB. [C. f. 410.] 

Tbstbs producti ex parte Agnetis Davison^ super libello sue 
adversus Robertum Peircy et Agnetem Peircy, alias Neid, in 
causa diyortii. 

Oalpbid Cabtbr, of Branton^ Carl, dioc., shomaker^ aged 
about 46 years. 

He saith that he haith known the said Agnes Davison dwelling 
in Skailbye, 4 mills from CaxleU^ 18 yere sence^ and the said 
Robert Peircy also so longe and longer ; saing that this 
deponent and the said Peircy was fellow soldgeres to gither at 
Carlell with one Capitan Tutye ; and as for Agnes Peircy^ alias 
Neid, this ezaminate doith not knowe hir at all^ nor ever sawe 
hir^ to his knawledge. 

He saith^ upon his ooth^ that this article (1), and the con- 
tents thereof, ys trew ; for in the fyfth or sext yere of Quene 
Mary's reygne^ to this deponent's remembranc bitwixt myd- 
somer and michelmas^ the said Robert Peircy requierd this 
examinate and Richard Walker^ and John Sanderson^ Rauf 
Robinson^ being all soldgiers to the said Capitan, to come and 
make mery with hym the said Robert Peircy^ at Skailby, 4 
mylls frome Carlell ; and so they all dyd. And commpng to 
one John Bell's house, ther the said Peircy and all the aforesaid 
his compeny taried and maid mery ; and Percy bad the good 
wyff fill drinke, for he wold pay for all : at what tyme the said 
Agnes Davison was personally present. And within one hower 
or 2 of ther cominge thither, the parties^ viz., the said Robert 
Peircy and Agnes Davison, did contracte them selves aither to 
th'other by such worde byword as is articulate ; and after they 
2 had pleightyd ther faith and treweth to githers, they drew 
hands to gither and kissed, and therupon the said Robert then 
gave unto the said Agnes a ring and a peic of gold. And this 
examinate and all his fellowes above said, save only the said 
Peircy, went that night to Carlell again. 

Signum + Galfridi Carter. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 255 

Richard Walker^ of Kyrklyventon^ near Carlell, hus- 
bandman, aged about 40 years. 

The said Peircy requiered certain of the said Agnes^ frends, 
dwellinge then in the said Skailsby, to be sent fore ; att whose 
smyd 2 or thre of them came to the said Bell's house ; and then 
and their, in the presenc of this examinate and all that ther was 
then present, viz., to the nomber of 12 persons and more, the 
said Robert toke the aforesaid Agnes Davison by th'and, and 
asked hyr yf she culd fynd in hir harte to forsake all men for 
hym, as he culd doo for hir; and she said ^* Yee/' And therupon 
the said Robert and Agnes dyd betrowgh them selves, as is 
articulate, and requierd all ther present to here wytness of ther 
handfesting, and that thei 2 were contract in the way of matri- 
mony to gither as man and wyff before God ; and the said 
Robert dranke to the said Agnes, and cauld hir his wyf, and she 
in lyke maner dranke to the said Robert Peircy, and cauld hym 
husband, and further, &c. Signum + Ricardi Walker. 



The personal answer of Robert Peircy, op Ownby, 
IN the CO. OF Durham, to the libel op Agnes or 
Anne Davison, against him and Agnes Neid, alias 
Peircy, of Barwick-upon-Tweid. [C. f. 402 b.] 

Robert Peircy, aged about 43 years. 

He saith truith yt is, that, about the moneth of mydsomer, in 
the fyft or sext- yere of our lait soveran Lady Queue Mary, 
deceased, this said examinate and the said Anne Davison was 
trowthed and hahdfaste to gither as man and wyf, then before 
God, in the dwellinge house of one John Bell, of Skailbye, in 
the dioces of Carlell, by suche wordes as is articulate ; and 
after the same contracte this examinate and the said Agnes 
Davison had carnall knowledge togither, and had also one 
childe, yett levinge, beinge a boy of 14 yeres of aidge, or more. 

He saith that this examinate, after the said contracte, was 
preiste furth to serve his prince at Barwicke, and ther con- 
tynewed one hole yere and more; and then obteyned licenc 
of Cappain Brodie to repair home to Commerland, where he. 



256 DBP08IT10NS AND OTHBB 



this examinate^ lefft the said Anne Davison. And at his this 
examinate's coming to the said Skalbye^ and also to Kirke 
Leventon^ gat knowledg of the said childe, which was pat to 
nurse ; but, as for the said Anne Davison, this deponent culde 
gett no knowledge of hir, but that she was goon southward 
to seik service, being destitut of leving; and so this depo, 
thinkinge that the said Agnes was aither deid or maried with 
some other, repared again to fiarwike abovesaid, and con- 
tynewed ther thre or 4 yere to gethers ; and being at borde at 
the said Agnes house, then wedoo, and was in name with hir, 
and so voced in the said towne of Barwike, wherupon this 
examinate was drifen and forced to marye the said Agnes Neid, 
or els to have doon open pennance, upon such suit as one John 
Tyndall, the said Agnes brother, maid to Mr. William Morress, 
then provest marshall of Barwike. And so this examinate was 
thrice asked ther in the church of Barwike with the said Agnes 
Neid, and immediately therupon was also maried with hir. 
Examined de tempore, he saith that aboutt Shroft Tyde in the 
secund yere of this our Quene^s most gracious reigne, and had 
had one childe with her, the said Agnes Neid, yett also levinge; 
confessing the residew of the contents of this article to be trew, 
for the which he ys very sorye and asketh God mercy. 

By me, Robert Pbbesb. 

The said Agnbs Peibgt, alias Neid, of Barwicke, relict of 
John Neid, aged about 50 years. 

Upon collopmond, 14 yere agoo, this ex^inate and the said 
Robert Peircy was maried togither in the kirke of Barwick. 
And after that tyme the said Agnes Davinson came frome New* 
castell to Barwike with one Hawkines, with whom she, the 
said Davinson, dwelte as a servant in Barwike and Twed- 
mouth more than one yere. And sondrye and very often the 
said Agnes Davison came to this examinate's house of hir 
errands, some tyme for mylke, drinck, and other necessaries, 
and contynewed dwelling and comyng to the said town of Ber- 
wike by the spac of thre yeres, viz. unto the death of the said 
Hawkines her maister, which was soore woundyd in Twedmouth, 
and died in Barwike abovesaid. After whose death the said 
Robert, this examinate's husband, fell in favour with the said 



BCGLESIASTIGAE PROCBBDINQS. 257 

Agnes Davison^ and kepte hir at the said Twedmouth as his 
hoore and harlett; and she, the said Davison, fering to have 
bein punished as such lyke, as evill wemen haith bein and is, the 
said Robert Peircy conveyed hir, the aforesaid Agnes Davison^ 
from Twedmouth abovesaid into this contre of Bushoprick^ 
wheir and with whome he haith ledd his lyfe. 

Signum + diet® Agnbtis. 



CCCV. A CONFBSSION TO BE REHEB8ID BY ThOMAS 

Smtthers and Thomas Jenynobs, at the Sermon in 

THE CaTHEDBALL ChURCH OF DuRHAM, FOB BRAWLING 

AND FIGHTING THER. 1 Feb. 1572. [Swift's book, f. 173.] 

Welbeloved ! Whereas, in the fifte and sexte yeres of Ed- 
warde the sexte, laite kinge of Englande, &c. it was by acte of 
Parliament ordeyned and provyded as followeth, in theise 
words : — ^^ Forasmuch as dyvers and many outrageous and 
barbarous behaviour and acts have been used and committed 
by dyvers ungodly and irreligious persons, by quarellinge, 
chidinge, brawlinge, fraynge and fightinge, openly, in churches 
and church yeards, therefore it is enacted, that if any person 
or persons shall smyte or lay any violent hands upon any 
other, or drawe any weapon in any churche or churchyearde, to 
the intent to stryke any other with the same, that then every 
person so offendinge shall not onely (ipso facto) be demed 
excommunicate and be excluded frome the company and fellow- 
ship of Christ his congregation, but also have one of his eares 
cutt of,*' as more at large appeareth by the same acte of Parlia- 
ment* Nevertheless, we, Thomas Smethers and Thomas Jen- 
nyngs, neither having before our eyes Godd's honour, the 
reverence to the place dedicated for Godd's howse and divine 
service, neither yet the penalty of the said most holsome 
statute, but of all likelyhode beinge stynged with a devilishe 
spiryte, did upon sondaie, beinge the 27th of August last, be- 
twixt the owers of 10 and 12 before noone the same daie, 
within the precincte of the Cathedrall Church of Durham, or 
at least the church yearde ther, mayke an assalte and did fight 

s 



258 DBPOSITIOM8 AND OTHBR 

togedier, luinge not onely violent and uncomly words, bat abo 
the one drawinge his daggar did hurte and shed bloode of the 
other^ and thereby did pollute the churche yearde ; the which 
our said grerous offences we do here moste humblie confesse 
before God and you all present, desiring God and the Quene, 
whose lawes we have transgressed, and you christen people, to 
whom we have given offence and evell example, to forgive us 
for Christe's sake ; to whom, with us and for us, we besich you 
to say, '^ Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thi 
name, thi,'^ &c« 



CCCVL Quarrelling and Fighting in the Church 
AND Churchyard of Stannington. [C. f. 435 b.] 

Testes producti ex parte officii Ogle et 

Johannem Rosse, super insultum factum in eccleaia parochiali 
de Stanington. [Circ. 1578.] 

Christopher Thorobte, derk, vicar of the parish church 
of Stanington, aged 82 years. 

The day and yere abovesaid, the said Raff Ogle, John Rosse, 
and this examinate, was all personally present in the church of 
Stanington. 

He saith that, the day and yere articulate, Matthew Ogle and 
his Sonne, the said Raiff Ogle, caulde this examinate to the 
queir ende of Stanington, and asked hym what he thought of 
the reast that one Toppyn had maid of the Egiptien's goods, 
at the said Mathew suit; and this deponent, consydering the 
day and tyme, moved the said Mathew to lett that matter 
cease to another tyme. And so as well this examinate as booth 
the said Ogles cam into the church to servic. And after the 
communion that day, the said Mathew Ogle asked the afore- 
said Topping whi he wold not delyver to hym the gereie that 
he had strened for hym. And the said Topping, being then in 
the queir of Stanington, denied and refused to delyver any 
such geir as Mathew demandyd, unless he wold fynd hym 2 
suirtiess. To whom then answerd the said Mathew, and said, 
he wold have the same geir that was arrestyd, or ellis, yf ever 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 259 

he toke hym^ the said Toppinge, where he haith had him, he 
shuld make his feit to be better to hym then two pair of hands. 
Upon which wordes John Rosse, tihe said Toppinge's sonne in 
lawe, said to the aforesaid Topping, ^^ Father, come away : what 
doo you stand their, and they brabling with you ?'' Then said 
Raiff Ogle to the said Rosse, ''What saith you, slave ?'' Rosse 
then sayd to the said Raiff, '' Howe be your selffe ?'' Att the 
which words the said Raiffe, beinge then also in the said queir, 
drew his dagger at the said Rosse ; and then this examinate, 
feringe evill to grow therupon, stept to the said Raiffe, and 
one Stephen Morton with this examinate also, being the parish 
dark, and bair the said Raiff bakward out of the queir doore, 
so that therupon ther was no hurt doon. Examined whither 
the said Rosse, Mathew Ogle, or Toppinge dyd then draw any 
wepon or mislest them sells, he saith, upon his othe, that ther 
was no further dissorder then this examinate haith deposed, 
upon of any of the above named, aither in worde or deide, 
for upon the deponent persuasion they skailde awaye ; ac ul- 
tra, &c. Christofore Thorebb. 

Raif Ogle, of Sawthike, generos. aged 22 years. 

He saith that his father, Mathew Ogle, reasoned with one 
Tliomas Thoppinge, the baliff of Shotton, in the said churche, 
for such geir as he had restyd of the Egipcians concerning the 
corsinge of a horse ; and when as the said Toppinge said 
directlye that he wold not delyver the said geir, this examinate 
aunswered and said, yt war his best to delyver the same. 
Wherupon John Rosse, being then present, said to the said 
Topping, '' Father, come away ; lett them alone, for they shall 
not have yt.'' To whom this examinate aunswered and said, 
'^ I trowe the cowsterin be mad to meddle wher he neid nott.'^ 
And then the said Rosse cauld this examinate " Coustran of all 
coustrans.'' And upon this communication one Stephen 
Morton, the parish clerke, toke this examinate by the shulders, 
and put this examinate out of the queir door, and said they 
wyst nott what they dyd, beinge within church. As for his 
dagger, he laid not his hand thereof and drew yt nott out. 
Mary, yt shott out of the sheithe by yt selff. When the said 

s 2 



260 DBPOSITIONS AND OTHBR 

Steven sawe this examinate angrie, be then put this examinate 
out of the church. Rauffb Ogle. 

John Rossb^ of Shotton, laborer, aged about 24 years. 

He saith that, upon Neweyers day in the morning last past, 
when Mathew Ogle and Thomas Topping, this deponent's step- 
father, were talkinge together in the queir of Stanington, and 
agreid not upon the delyvery upon certain goods arreisted, this 
examinate said to the said Thomas, his stepfather, " Come away, 
for ther words and brawling ys known well enough ;'' to whome 
Raiff Ogle aunswered, *^ What, slave, what is that thou saith ?^' 
And this examinate said, ^* What, man, by your self?'' and ther 
upon the said Rawf plukett out his dager, and had yt above his 
head to have smytten at this examinate. And then, dyvers 
staundinge bye the vicar and the clarke, one Stephen Murton, 
put the said Raiffe out of the queir doore. 

JOHANNBS + ROSSE. 

6 Junii, 1573. Mathew Ogle, of Saultwick, gent., father 
of the aforesaid Ralph, aged about 60 years. 

He was in the churche yarde the tyme the said Raiff and 
Rosse in the church, and so harde nothing spoken bitwixt 
them 2. Mary, afterward this examinate hard yt reportyd 
byfore my Lord Ogle that the one of them cauld the other 
'^ lowne" in the said church the tyme articulate. 

Signum + Mathei Ogle. 

Thomas Toppingb, of Shotton, aged .... 

He saith that, the day and yer articulate, this examinate 
being in the church of Stanington, and having arrested certain 
goods of the Egipcions, which Mathew Ogle requierd to have 
at this examinate's hande; and when he refused so to doo 
without lawfull pledg, the said Mathew and Rauffe gave this 
examinate crewell words, thretening that yf he use to walk 
wher he had wont to doo, the said Rauffe wold mak this depo- 
nent feit to be worth 2 pair of hands. Wherupon John Rosse, 
this examinate's wife sonne, came into the quere wher this 
examinate was, and said, ** Father, what doo ye, sittinge here and 
se them brag you as they doo ?'' and at that worde the said 
Rauff said to the said Rosse, " What saith you, slave ?'* to whome 



ECCLB8IA8TICAL PROCBBDINGS. 261 

Rosse aunswered, '^S''^ what by yourself?'^ and then the said 
Raff laid his hand upon his dagger and reached with his left 
hand to the said Rosse in great anger, wherupon one Stephen 
Morton, the parish clerke ther, toke the said Raiffe in his armes 
and bair hym out into the church yarde, wher the said Mathew 
and Raff chodd and tretened this examinate and Rosse a long 
while. Signum + Tho. Topping. 

Stephen Murton of Stanington, husbandman, aged about 
30 years. 

He saith that, being the parish clerke of the church of Stan- 
ington, this deponent, being personally present in the queir of 
Stanington^ wher the said Raiff Ogle and John Rosse was also 
both present, he, this examinate, hard the said Rauffe caule the 
said Rosse ^^ slave'' in greiff; to whome the said Rosse aun- 
swered and said, "And how by your self?" the which worde 
Rauff Ogle had his dagger drawen in his hand, and this deponent 
therupon fering evill therof, this deponent fearing that the said 
Rauf wold have striken with it, toke the said Raiffe by the 
arme and carried owt of the chancell doore ; and further, &c. 

Stephen Morton. 

Robert Bullock 

The said John Rosse said to Thomas Toppyng, his step- 
father, " Come away, and make not all that of yt, for ther is 
right to gett as well for the poore as for the riche.'* Then 
spake the said Rayff to the said John Rosse verie angrely, 
" Slave, what is that thou saies ?" " And how slave by your 
self?'' said Rosse then. The said Raffe drewe not his dagger at 
all ; but when the said clerke shott the said Rauff to the doore, 
takyng hym by the arme, then the said Rauffe dager fell out. 

James Lanoe of Shotton, laborer, aged about 22 years. 

The said Rauff had his dager drawen above his head most 
lyke great angre. 

CCCVII. Quarrelling in the church yard op Stan- 

NINGTON. 1573. [C. f. 440.] 

Thomas Gopton, of Stanington, laborer, aged 24 years. 
He saith that upon a Sonday, halfe a yere ago, of any other 



262 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHBB 

certain tyme this ezaminate cannott depose, the said Hudspdth 
and Tompson was standing in the church yard in Stanington, 
bytwixt die morning praier and communion, and in that very 
tyme ther dyd two of the Huspeiths ryde throwghe the town of 
Stanington, which they two both sawe and loked at them. 
And Pbtriz, a Skotisman, asked what two men thei were ? and 
the said Tompson said that they wer two of the Hudspeiths ; 
^Mary/' said theafforesaid Pbtrike, ^I know them very well ; they 
ar very honest men.'^ ^Tea,^' said the said Tompson, ^'that 
they ar, and as moch forborne for ther eviU as good.^ Then 
spoke William Hudspeith to the said Tompson, and said, 
'^ What, loowne, what saith thou ? what knoweth thou to them 
but honest men ? Had I the out of the kirkeyarde I shuld make 
thee to knowe them for honest men." And with that the said 
William Hudspeith stroke awkwardly at the said Tompson, and 
hatt hym on the breste with his hande. Examined, whither 
the said Tompson then smote again at the said William, or 
noo, this examinate aunswerith and saith he dyd not to byde 
upon. Signum + Thom^ Ooftgn. 

Henry Tromble, of Stanington, laborer, and hynd to Wil- 
liam Ray, of his £Eirmehold in Stanington, aged 26 years. 

He saith that William Hudspeith this deponent haith known 
3 yere last past, and Tompson only this last yere, being the 
vicar servaunt. 

He saith that, before Michelmes last paste in somer, what 
other daye this examinate cannott depose, bitwixt the morning 
praier and the communion tyme, upon a Sonday, ther came 
two men ryding through the town of Stanington. 'At what 
tyme this examinate and many moo, being in the church yard 
at Stanington, wher also the said William Hudspeth and Thomas 
Thompson standing emongest other, one which this examinate 
cannot remember asked what two men they were that rood bye ? 
and one Patrick, a Skotts man, sayd " they were two honest 
gent, of the Hudspethes ;' and the said Tomson then answered 
and said, " that they were but broukell men, and they ar more 
forborne for ther evill then for their good.'^ And then spoke 
the said William Hudspeith to the said Tompson, and said, 
^ What reprooffe gyves you my frends ?'' and with that gave the 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 268 

said Tompson a shut backe with his hand upon the breste^ 
being in greiffe ; and further he eaimott depose in the premisses^ 
saing that the same Tompson, being but a cryetour, gave no 
moo words, Signum Henbici + Taomble. 

6 June, 1573. Mathew Ogle, of Saultwik, gen., aged about 
60 years. 

He saith, being one of the 24 of the parish that had the 
examinacion of the matter by wyttnesses, culde fynd no fray by 
weapon or stroks ; but that ther was certain chiding words that 
past bytwixt them. Signum + dicti Mathbi. 

Thomas Toppinge, of Shotton. 

He saith that he hard not the said Thomson or Hudspeith 
speak or doo any thing as is articulate ; but that ther was of 
great chiding words bitwixt them, wherupon the said Thomas 
Tompson, the vicar's man, was set in the stoks at after noon 
the same day. Signum TaoMM + Topping. 

23 Maii. The personal answer of William Hudspeth. 
. He saith that one Thomas Thompson and this examinate dyd 
chyde to gither in the church yard of Stanington, and the said 
Tompson cauld this examinate ^^ knave,'' and this examinate 
eauld hym the said Tomson ^^ lymber ;'' but they dyd not smyt 
the one at the other, nor drew no wepon. 



CCCYIIL Office of Judge against William Sander, 

FOA LAYING VIOLENT HANDS UPON THE ReCTOB OF 

Ryton. [C. f. 448.] 

Mr. William Garnett, clerk, aged about 78 years. 

He saith, the 4th day of December articulate, the said Wil- 
liam Sander, also articulate, being in a great raidg and furye, 
dyd willinglye and maliciously smite at this deponent with a 
water staiF, suche as fishermen hangs ther nett upon, being 
towerds 2 yerds long, and that 2 sondry tymes ; and therwith 
hurt this deponent off the left arme, so that senc that tyme 
this examinate culde never doo any thing therwith, ye, not so 
moch as help one with his ownc clothes. Examined de loco, 
he saith that it was in Biton towne streit, over against the said 



264 DEPOSITIONS AND OTBBB 

Sander doore. Examined de causa, he saith yt was for that 
this deponent rebonked hym for catting younge eish wood in 
this examinate's own grounde, canld the Haull dose. Exa- 
mined de circamstantibus, he saith that his brother in lawe^ 
Richerd Robinson, ain aidged man, was also present at that 
present tyme, and also soore hurt of the head with the said 
staf by the said William Sander ; and ther was also then in the 
streit that dyd se the said Sander smite, ut supra, this exami- 
nate, Richard Sander of Riton, webster, and his wyf, Willy 
Sander of the same, laborer, and Agnes his wyfe, one Chikyn, 
the wyf of Roger Chikyn, that thep gave a great crye and 
showte, about 3 of the cloke at after none. 

cauling this examinate '^ hooremaster preiste,'^ with 

many other rating woords. Will'm Gabnett. 

Richard Robinson, of yoman, aged 60 years. 

This deponent, being then personally present, dyd se the 
said Sander smite in great furye and anger, at 2 sondvy tymes, 
the said Mr. Wm. Gamett, and light upon the said Mr. Wm. 
arme bothe the said tymes ; he saith yt was with grein new 
cutt staf or ronge, of the bignes of a man's arme ; he saith that 
ther was dyvers and sondry women then standing, in Janet 
Smithe doore, and in other places, in town gait of Riton, 
which dyd se the said Sander at that present, and one of them 
gave then a great showte. He saith that he, this deponent, 
was then also smitten under fott with the said Sander, and was 
so myerd and blynded, by reason of the said stroks, that he 
could (not) se to decern or knowe what persons they were that 
cryed and sawe. Signum + Richardi Robinson. 



The personal answer of William Sander, of Rtton, 
to articles against him. [C. f. 448.] 

He saith that, at the tyme libellat, this examinat went to the 
pasture close of Mr. Garnet; and, being at the out syde of 
the hedge, he cutt 4 kidgells or houghells to hange salmon 
netts upon. And, as he was cuttinge them, one Richerd Robin- 
son came unto hym and rebucked hym for so doinge. And 



ECCLBSIA8TICAL PROCBBD1N6S. 265 

afterwarde^ when this examinat had brought them home, Mr. 
Garnet and the said Richerd, with one John Sadler, the said 
Mr. Garnett ser^ante, came to this examinat doore ; the said 
Mr. Garnet toke up the said houghells, meanyng to taike them 
awaye. Whereat this examinat catched hold of them, and the 
said Richerd Robinson also ; and this examinat, being moved 
thereat, strooke the said Richerde Robinson to the grounde 
with one of them. And he is not certaine whether he hitt the 
said Mr. Garnett at any of his strookes in his anger or nott, 
for he strooke at the nearest in that his anger. 

Signum M. Willielmi Sander. 



CCCIX. The Will of Humphrey Hopper. [D. f. 1.] 

Testes producti ex parte Umphridi Hopper, super factione 
testamenti Thomce Hopper, filii sui, nuper de Medomsley, cujus 
idem Umphridus est executor. 

William Strothers, clerk, curate of Shotley, aged about 
47 years. 

He haith knowne Thomas Hopper, deceased, by the space of 
8 yeres last past. He saith, that the 8th day of November last 
past, being upon Sunday, this examinate, being at morning 
praier in the church of Shotley, one Bartram Lighton came 
frome the said Umphraye to this deponent, and requierd hym^ 
this examinate, to come to Medomsley wher then Thomas 
Hopper laye sick ; which thing he dyd, assoon as servic in the 
said church of Shotleye was doon. And, comming to the said 
Thomas Hopper house, in the chambre ther wher he lay, about 
one of the cloke after noone, the said Umphra, his father, said 
*^ Thomas, here is S' William : will ye no we make your will?" 
the said Umphray asking hym what he wold doo with his land 
in Medomsley ; who answered that he« the said Thomas, wold 
gyve yt, the said land, to hym, the said Umphray, as freely as 
ever yt was his. And then the said Umphra asked the said 
Thomas, whither he was owing unto his brother Roger Hopper 
20/. or noo ? And the said Thomas confessed that he was so 
moch owing unto the said Roger. Examoned further^ whither 



266 DBPOSITIOHS AND OTHB& 

he, this ezaminate, was privy of that will exhibit and redd in 
the court this day and shewed this examinat at the tyme of this 
his examinacion, in such forme, and written in the name of 
Thomas Hopper ; he saith, that, upon the morrow next after, 
being Monday, this examinate came firome Ebchester and 
ministred the sacrament to the said Thomas Hopper, but hard 
hym make no declaration of any wyll, nor further matter then 
he this deponent harde byfore. Notwithstanding, about thre 
weikes after that daye, the aforesaid Umphra Hopper came to 
this examinat at Unthanke, where he lodgeth, and requierd 
hym to come to Ebdiester ; that, upon the hering and report 
of Richerd Sympson and Thomas Spomeston, he, this exami- 
nate, might put downe the said Thomas Hopper wiU in writing 
• • • • within a weike then next after this examinate came 

to Ebchester and upon the saing and report of 

the aforesaid Ri • • • Thomas Spomestone, this examinate 
put down the said Thomas Hopper's will in writing, in manner 
and forme as was redd • • • . this present day, being of 
this examinate's owne writing . • • • Saing tliat both the 
Sonday and Monday that this examinate haith deposed upon, 
the said Thomas Hopper was of good reason and memory after 
such tyme as the paynes and pangs of his sicknes seasyd, as 
they dyd in very deyd. Williame Struthbbis. 

Richard Sympson, of Ebchester, yoman, aged 50 years. 

He saith, that the said Thomas Hopper this examinat haith 
knowne off a childe, being borne at Eedes brige, nigh this exami- 
nate's dwelling ; sayng of his ooth that, the Friday byfore the 
said Thomas dyed, the forsaid Umphray came to this exami- 
nate in Ebchester, and declared then that the said Thomas was 
soore visityd in his siknes, and requierd this examinate to come 
and bring » neighbour with hym and here what his said sone 
wold say concerning his last will. And this examinate, having 
busynes that night, went not unto the morrow after, being 
Satterday. And then, about the sonne rysing, this examinate 
and one Thomas Spomeston came to Medomsley, wher they 
founde the said Thomas lying sick upon a cowch by the fier 
syde. At what tyme this deponent asked the said Thomas, as 
he dyd? who aunswerd and said, ^^Well, Richerd, I thanke 



BCCLB8IA8TICAL PR0CBBDIN08. 267 

you/' And this examinate bad hym be of good cheir^ and 
willyd the said Thomas to make hym fytt for God^ and be good 
to his wyfe^ then being present, seithinge mylke for the brack- 
fasts of one John Lawson and another young man, which this 
examinat is not of remembranc of. At what tyme the said 
Thomas declared and spoke to this examinat in the presenc 
of the said Umphray, sytting then in a chair besyd the said 
Thomas, and in the hering of the said Sporneston, Lawson, 
and the other young man, that he, the said Thomas, wold gyve 
his land as fireely to the said Umphray, his father, as ever his 
father gave ytt to hym • ... to the childe that his wyfe 
was withall, when yt came to lawfuU aidg ; saing, farther, that 
his wife shuld • • . third • • . and maid the said 
Umphray • . • said chylde his executors, being then of 
perfect remembranc to this examinate's judgment and con- 
scienc; saing further, that he, the said Thomas, then be- 
quiethed to the preist of Shotley 3«. 4d, ; and as for the legacy 
of his wedding apparell he hard not the said Thomas gyve them 

at all to his father /• to his brother, the tanner, 

saing further that the . • • was written in this examinate's 
house at Ebchester by the said • • . about thre weiks off 
his death in the presenc of this examinat, the said Umphray, 
and Thomas Spomeston, at the mocion of the said Umphray. 

Signum + Ricardi Stmpson. 

Thomas Spornbston of Ebchester, mylner, aged 40 years. 

The said Thomas laye in a newke nigh the fier, being then of 
perfect memory, and bad this examinat and his precontest 
*' Good morrow '* very cheirfuUy, and maid his praier to God 
very discretly and thankfully, at what tyme he gave his land to 
his father. 

John Lawson, of Byrtmansyd,'nigh Darwen, webster, alias 
sever, aged 24 years* 

He haith known the said Thomas thes 7 yeres last past, 
being a laborer and a berier about the said Thomas house many 
tymes ; saing that he, this deponent, was at breakfast in the 
said Thomas Hopper's bouse, and had been beriing the said 
Satterday that the said Richerd Sympson and Thomas Sporn- 
ston came to be wittness of the said Thomas will — Of good 



268 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHBB 

and perfect remembrance. He gave in legacye 10 grotts to S'' 
William, that wrote his will. 

Signum + Johannis Lawson. 

Tbhtbs producti ex parte Agnetis Hopper viduae, nuper 
uxoris Thomae Hopper, super ezceptionibus adversus executores 
testamenti dicti Thomae. [lb. f. 8.] 

John Huntbr, of Medomsley, wheilwright, alias husband- 
man, aged 58 years. 

He saith that the said Thomas Hopper, being this exami- 
nate's neighbour, dwelling together within 2 pair of butt 
lengthes, died aither the Sonday next bifore or next after 
Martlemas, in the yere libellat; saing that, the Friday next 
bifore the said Thomas death, Umphra Hopper, articulat, 
came to this examinate in his owne dwelling house in Me- 
domsley, and requierd this deponent to goo with hym, the said 
Umphray, to here the said Thomas Hopper his sone's will ; at 
whose request this deponent went with the said Umphray to 
the said Thomas Hopper's house, at what tyme he, the said 
Thomas, was soore sike, lyinge in his hall house. And Umphra 
Hopper, aforesaid, then began to reherse certain points of the 
said Thomas's will to hym, the said Thomas, per haec verba, — 
'^ My bame, wheras I gave the my lande, will not thou gyve 
the same to me freely again ? '^ And the said Thomas answerd 
'^yee.^' And then the said Umphra asked the said Thomas 
further, viz. : — ^^ Will thou make me and the bame within thi 
wyfe's sydes thi executors ?" And the said Thomas aunswerd 
then again *' yee.'^ And Umphra said again to the said 
Thomas, — " Doist thou not owe thi brother, Roger Hopper, 
20/., and Sanders Eggleston twenty nobles ?'' And the said 
Thomas Hopper still aunswerd " yee.^' And Umphra further 
said, ^* Thou awest 20 nobles that must be paid to a cripple.'^ 
And the said Thomas aunswerd alway " ye ;'' and so to every 
think that the said Umphra asked of the said Thomas. Exa- 
mined de tempore diei, he saith, towerds night, about 7 of the 
cloke. Examined whether the said Thomas was, to this exa- 
minate's knowledge, at that time of perfect reason and memory, 
or no, dicit that for a treweth this examinate hard the said 
Thomas say nothing of hymself at all that tyme ; being more 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 269 



and one houre and i, aither to the said Agnes, his wyfe, this 
examinate, or to any other person, but said "yee/' "yee/' 
when his father Umphra asked hym any thing. And yett this 
de]>onent saith that he, the said Thomas Hopper, knew this 
examinate at hys first coining to hym, for the said Umphra 
asked hym yf he so dyd, and the said Thomas aimswerd, ^^ I 
know John Hunter,'* Mary, whither he, the said Thomas, 
knew this examinate at his comming away he cannott depose, 
for this examinate at his waygait bad the said Thomas fairwell 
and God comforth hym, but he maid no manner of aunswer 
again. Mary, Umphra Hopper dyd, and thanked this ex- 
aminate for his paines. Examined de circumstantibus, he saith 
one Raif Hunter, and the said Agnes his wife, and one Ally 
Grinwell, the said Thomas's woman servant. 

The sounday sennett, being the 7th or 8th day byfore the 
said Thomas his death, this examinate came in by chanch to se 
howe the said Thomas dyd, about 8th or 9 of the cloke in the 
foore noon, the same day, at what tyme the said Thomas 
Hopper was neither of good memory nor reason, but all dis- 
tracte, singinge hey roifie songs. 

Signum -h Johannis Hunter, 
Thomas Hunter, of Medomsley, wheilwright, aged 26 
years. 

He saith that, in the yere libellate, betwein Michelmes and 
Martlemas evon, the sonday sennett byfore the said Thomas 
died, this examinate, being in the said Thomas house, about 12 
of the cloke at noon the same day, in the presenc of John 
Clewghe, Nicoles Lighten, Sir Wilham Strother, Nanne Snaw- 
ball, and Ally Grimwell, and other women, and being then so 
score grevid with sicknes that he coulde . . nothing tochinge 
his will, when he was moved by the said Strother. And then 
the said Umphra said to the said Thomas, " Will thou not gyve 
me the land that I gave the }" And the said Thomas Hopper 
aunswerd ** yee.'^ And therupon the said Agnes br . . the 
evidenc of the land to the said Umphra, and he gave them to 
his sone Thomas, and Thomas gave them again to the said 
Umphra. Then also the said Umphra asked the said Thomas, 
viz., ^' Will not thou make me and thi barrie thi executors ?'* 



270 DBP08ITION8 AND OTHER 

and the sud Thomas did answer ** jee.^ And so answerd ever 
when so the said Umphra firayned the sud Thomas ; and other- 
waies thb ezaminate never hard the said Thomas speak anything 
of himself to anf bodye^ duringe the spaic of an hower or more, 
that this examinate was with the said Thomas. 

Concerning the said Homas's debts, when the said Umphray 
asked hym yf he, the said Thomas, dyd not owe his brotiher 
Roger £20, the said Thomas aunswerd ^ ye.'' 

He saith that Sympson and Spomston articulate ar 2 honest 
poore men of Ebchester, of good name and fame. And, as for 
Lawson, he is but a runner, of no honestie or credit, being a 
maker of strawe hatts, seves, and riddles, goinge frome town to 
town. 

He remembrith that the tyme this examinate was with the 
said Thomas Hopper, as aforesaid, the said Thomas bad a sheit 
about his head, which some tyme he, the said Thomas, wold 
puU away haistly; and then his said father, Umphra, wold say, 
^* Peise, bully, thinke of the passion of Christe," and wold mend 
and lay the sheit one again. Signum + Th. Hunter. 

Umphrbt Rainton, of Bumopsyde, near Lanchester, la-^ 
borer, aged about 20 years. 

He saith that he, this examinate, is brother to the said Agnes 
Hopper. 

He saith that the said Thomas Hopper, his brother in lawe, 
died, to this examinate's remembrance, of a satterday at night, 
next after Martlemas last. And, upon the thursday next 
byfore, this examinate was sent to the said Thomas Hopper his 
house by this deponent's father and mother, to berrye, upon 
Friday then next after. And then buried with one John 
Lawson, of Shotley parish, sainge, that the said thursday at 
night, and all the tyme this deponent was ther, tiz., to the 
hower of the said Thomas's death, he the said Thomas lay still 
and spok nothing but after other folke. At what tyme the 
said Umphra wold lett noon speake to the said Thomas Hopper 
but hym self. And when the said Agnes asked hym as he dyd, 
the said Umphray wold say, ** Away, thou troblest hym.*' Ajid 
then the said Thomas wold also say, " Away, thou troblest me;" 
saing that the said Thomas was nott, at that tyme by this 



ECCLB8IA8TICAL PROCEEDINGS. 271 

examinate deposed upon, in remembranc, or of any reason to 
make any will. And that upon satterday, in the mominge, 
ivhen this examinate and the said Lawson came in to breakfast, 
the said Umphra and Richerd Sympson, and Spomston, of 
£bchester, went furth of the said house frome the said Thomas. 
£xamined what communication he this examinate, or the said 
Lawson, then hard bitwixt the said Thomas Hopper, Simpson, 
and Spomston, at ther departynge, he this respondent say 
never worde, but that they said to the said Agnes, ^^ God be 
with you.'' Ther was a common voic and fame emong neigh- 
bors that the said Thomas had raved ; and so he hard both the 
said Umphray, John Atkinson, and the said Thomas's wyfe 
say. And Umphray, the said Thursday at night, told this ex- 
aminate and other in the house, that the said Thomas in his 
siknes said to one Bartram Lighton, that came in to se the said 
Thomas, " Tak this man*' (appointyng to the said Umphra), " I 
chardge you in the Queue's name and my Lord of Durham, for 
he hath stolne all my goods and caried yt to Lyddisdaill ;" saing 
also that the said Atkinson tolde this deponent that the said 
Umphray conjeured the devyll when his sone was madd and 
raved ; and, as concerning the wytnes, this examinate knoweth 
noon of them but the said Lawson. 

Signum + Umphridi Rainton. 

Alice Grynwell, servant of the said Agnes, singlewoman, 
aged 22 years. * 

She saith that the said Thomas Hopper, articulate, hir 
master, died the Satterday at night next after Martlemas last 
past, and had lyin sike about 14th dayes byfore y t ; sainge to 
hir remembrance that the sonday bifore the said Thomas died, 
the preist of Shotley was with the said Thomas and Umphray 
Hopper his father, and other men, whome this examinate knewe 
nott ; at what tyme the aforesaid Thomas was so sore vexed 
with siknes that he raved and showtyd, cryinge *^ howe" all 
that morning contynuallye towerd night, and then toke better 
rest. Examined de tempore, she saith about noon, when the 
service was doon, and that upon the monday next after, at 
night, the said Thomas Hopper was very madd, and wold have 
risen out of his bedd, crying all his good was gon ; and cryed of 



272 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

one Redshawe, of Birkynsyde, to gett bis good agin ; sainge, 
the dyvell have his sawll yf he had any thinge left but a hog ; 
and that he kend not his owne father when the said Umpra 
went to the doore, and came in agane and asked the said 
Thomas, *^ Whoe am I — am not I thy &ther ?^* And he, the said 
Thomas, wold say, '* Thou art the blak devell of Edeedsbrig." 
And then the said Umphray saynd the said Thomas and 
corssed hym, and spyttyd, and said, '^Away, devill," many 
tymes. And when Barthram Lighton came in to the said 
Thomas house, the said Thomas chardged the said Barthram in 
the Queue's nam to kepe the said Umphray, namyng hym, this 
man, unto he had gotten his good agan; sainge to his wyfe also, 
'^ This litle theif helpt away with my goods as fast as any 
dooth ;^' and that one John Atkinson, and Symon Johnson wife, 
and this examinate, help to hold the said Thomas, when he 
wold have risen out of his bedd. And after that night he, the 
said Thomas, could not spake 2 words to gither in reason to any 
man, but lay still, and kend very fewe. And the satterday on 
the mominge then following, the said Umphray, about 8th or 
9 of the cloke, brought in one Sympson and Spomston of Eb- 
Chester; and byfore this examinate and the said Agnes the 
said Umphray tolde the said Sympson and Spomston that his 
son Thomas had midd his wyll, and had maid the said Um- 
phray and the bame that the said Agnes was with his executors. 
<^ And the said Thomas spake nothing but " yee f' saing that the 
said Umphray had moch talke to the said Symson and Spom- 
ston of the said Thomas will ; and Thomas lay still and ever 
said ^'yee " to all that ever his father, the said Umphray, spoke 
to hym. And further, or what other talke the said Umphray 
had with the said 2 witnesses, this examinate cannott depose 
upon ; but sainge, that all the tyme the said Symson and 
Spomston was ther one John Lawson was burying in the bam 
with the said Agnes brother, her precontest; and so for treweth 
hard not what was said to the said Sympson and Spomston. 
And to any of the other articles she cannott depose, but only 
upon the second article, that the said Thomas Hopper in his 
syknes was so madd that, at such tyme as he knew not the 
said Umphray his father, he cauld for his dagger, and said. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 2/3 

byfore John Atkinson and other, that yf he had his dagger he 
wold sley the fellow that had his goods; speaking to the said 
Umphray, saing that yt was he that had stole his goods and 
caried the same to LyddisdailL 

Signura + dictee Alicia. 

John Clewgh, of Medomsley, wheilwright^ aged 32 years. 

He saith that^ upon a Sonday about Martlemas last past, 
beinge the Sonday next byfore the said Thomas died, this de- 
ponent, dwelling then with one John Hunter as a laborer, hering 
that the said Thomas Hopper was syke, this deponent, in his 
going to the church, went into the said Thomas's house to see 
as he dyd, about 8th of the cloke byfore noon the same daye ; 
At what tyme the said Thomas was score visytyd and out of his 
reason, to this examinate's knowleg; for that he pulde the 
.clothes of his head, and kend neither this examinate nor the 
said Umphray or the said John Hunter, nor the said Umphra 
wyfe, nor any other ; and so this deponent left hym, and went 
to church with the said John Hunter, his m'. And after dyner^ 
.the same Sondaye, this examinate came again to visit and se 
the said Thomas; at what tyme the said Umphra, Nicholas 
lighton, Thomas Hunter, and Sir William Strother of Shotley, 
were all in the said Thomas's house, saing that yt was then 
about one of the cloke at afternoon. At what tyme the said 
Thomas had his remembrance moch better, for then he knew 
this examinate and the said Lighten, Hunter, and other in the 
house ; Umphray Hopper abovesaid saing to the said Thomas 
theis words, ** Sonne, here is . . • thou shall make thy 
will: art thou not so content P And the said Thomas aunswerd 
** yee." Then said the said Umphray unto the said Thomas, 
" Thou shalt make thi will, and make me thy executor and the 
childe that is bytwixt thy wyfe's syedes ;'' and the said Thomas 
aunswerd ** yee, father.*' Then the said Umphray cauld of the 
:said Agnes the wyf for the deids of the lands ; and the said 
Agnes brought the same, and delivered them to the said Um« 
phray ; and Umphray gave them to the said Thomas, and said^ 
«* Remember the covenaunts bitwixt the and me, which was, that 
thou shuld gyve me the land again, yf ought cam to thee but 
god, as frely as I gave yt to the ;" and Thomas Hopper aun*. 

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274 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHKB 

swered ** Ye, father, I am contenV' ^nd dyd then gyre the said 
writings to the said Umphray again: and then Umphray 
Hopper, aforesaid^ spoke to the said Thomas and said, '* Sonne, 
thou knowest that thou awest to thy brother Roger 20/., and 
to Hunter lasse 20 nobles;*' and the said Thomas said ^'yee/' 
And further, this examinate hard not, nor canne depose, sainge 
that he, this examinate, never hard nor sawe the said Thomas 
after that hower, viz. about one of the cloke at after noon the said 
Sonnday, at what tyme ther was nothioge written ; for the said 
preist went away evon a litle byfore this examinate. 

As concerning the latter part of the Sd article^ he saith that 
ther is a common voic in the said towne of Medomsley that 
the said Thomas Hopper aught not one grote, but that the said 
Umphra undertoke to pay byfore neighbours. 

The common voic is emong nebors that the said Thomas had 
no dealinge with the said Roger^ his brother, senc the said 
Thomas's mariadge, and that the said Umphra promised then 
to cleir the said Thomas, and sett hym free of all his debts 
byfore the said mariadge; and further this examinate cannott 
depose. Signum + Johannis Clewghb. 

John Atkinson of the Espeis, alias Lawson's House^ near 
Lanchester, husbandman^ aged about 66 years. 

He haith known Umphiie Hopper for two years, and the said 
Agnes Hopper of a childe, saing that the said Agnes is this 
examinate's suster doughter. 

He saith upon his oothe that the said Thomas Hopper, arti- 
culate, was not of anie perfect reason nor memorye, to this 
deponent's knowledge, or for or by any report that this exami- 
nate did here, to make any will, frome the tyme that the said 
Thomas was visityd l^h sicknes during his lyfe dales in this 
worlde, which was about 20^> dales byfore his, the said Thomas, 
deathe; for this examinate cam over sondry tymes to se 
howe the said Thomas dyd, and at no tyme culd perceyve that 
the said Thomas's wytt or memory was to be accomptyd upon 
for to make his will, or to sett and determine his goods. 

He saith that, about thre or 4<"' dales byfore the said Thomas 
died, this examinate fortuned to comme to se hym; and, 
for that he was so soore vexed, this deponent thought good to 



ECCIiSSIASTICAL PROCBBDIKGS. 2j5 

terye with hym that nyght, aiid to de what rest he wold take ; 
and so dyd. At what tyme this examinate's suster^ the sayd 
Agnes Hopper mother^ and the servants^ was all present with 
the said Umphray ; and at or bifore mydnight they wer all se 
sore forwatched that this examinate bad them goo to bedd^ and 
he^ this deponent, by God's help, wold take the tente of hym, 
the said Thomas. And a little byfore the coke crew that night 
.the said Thomas was. in such rage that this examinate culd not 
rewll hym in his bedd ^ and then this examinate caold of the said 
Umphray out of his bedd, which, seinge hys sone, the said 
Thomas, in that radg, maid a compas about his said sone Thomas 
bedd, and spytted and said, ^^Fye, away, thou fowell.theife, that 
commes to temp us,'' sainge to his son Thomas many tymes^ 
" Thou or I have offendyd God/' And at the said tyme, the 
said Thomas flew even to the said Umphray's faic, and trobled 
hym very moch. And Umphra wold say to hym, ^^ Bully, am 
jiott I thy father — ^kens thou not me ?" And the said Thomas 
wold answer the said Umphray, ^^Thou art the devill^— thou ar 
noon of my father." And Umphray culd gett no reste of the said 
Thomas to he had cast hym doon on his bedd and lay upon 
hyin, and bad the said Thomas ^^ Lyg, lymer, wilt thou not lig^ 
lymer ?'^ and smote the said Thomas upon the chaffs dyvers 
tymes with the edge of his hand, saing ^^ Wylt thou troble U9 
fdl still ?" And the said Thomas wold then cry of one Thomas 
Reddshawe and others, and wold by d them follow, for all his 
grathe was stone away. And then would the said Umphra and 
this examinate leid the said Thomas about the house, and lett 
hym se his best cote, his dublett, and other grath in the house ; 
aiid the said Thomas wold answer that that was none of his» 

The said 3trother, Simpson, Spomston, and Lawson, ar all 
very poore men in Umphray Hopper danger; and the said 
JLiawson but a runner and a slave, that will say as any man will 
have him for a peic of breid. 

Super 7 credit ilium esse verum, both conceminge the said 
wyttnes being strangers of an other parish, and as also in refu- 
synge to take any of the dore neighbours ; and also toching any 
debt that the sidd Thomas shuld owe aither to the said Roger, hys. 
brother^ Qr to any other person, for that all neighbours knowelh. 

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276 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

that the said Umphra at the said Thomas mariadg made pro- 
mess to Christopher Bridge^ Batmanson, and many other^ that 
the said Thomas shuld not be owing one grote ; and senc that 
tyme the said Thomas had never any dooing with any his 
brethren, Signum + Johannis Atkinson^ 



CCCX, The dependence op the Chapel op St. Mar- 
garet's UPON THE Church op St. Oswald's in 
Durham. [D. f. 3.] 

Testes product! ex parte gardianorum capelke 8» Margaret® 
adversus Williehnum Wright ac oonsodos suos^ gardianoa 
ecdesiffi S. Oswaldi. 

Hugh Tbdcastell^ of Elvett, taylor^ aged *IA years. 

He saith that he beliyeth that the chappdl of St. Margaret's 
is apperteyninge to the churche of St. Oswald's in Durham^ 
apd that yt is a lawfall chappell to do all deyin servic therin^ 
and also have auctoritie to minister all manner of sacraments> 
and to wedd and burye. 

He saith that the most parte of the said inhabitors withift 
the tyme articulate this examinate huth knowen to haye 
commed^ as parishioners, to St. Oswald church, to diyyn seryice, 
upon St. Oswald day commonly eyerye yere, as to ther head 
kirke, and also haith known them of St. Margaret's to haye 
maried and buried at St. Oswald's church and church yarde. 

+ 
John Watson, of Elyett, yoman, aged about 70 years. 

He beliyeth that the chappell of St. Margaret's, by auctoritie 
from the Prior and Coyent of the lait dissolyed monastery of 
Durham, haith bein sufferd and permityd to use aU manner of 
sacraments, as is articulate in .... chappell dependent to St. 
Oswald's. 

He saith that all the inhabitors articulate ar parishioners 
within St. Oswald parish, and yett, for ther more ease, ar suf- 
ferd to haye all maner of sacraments and diyin seryic in ther 
sud chappell of St. Margarett, doyinge ther dewtye accustomed 
to tiie said St. Oswald's, as unto the head kirke; saing also 



KCOLESIASTICAL PBOCBBDINGS. 277 

that this examinate haith known within theis fewe yeres soma 
of the • • • articulate to have buried ther deid in the plage tyme in 
St. Oswald's church yard^ and that this examinate can goo to 
the graves the said dead w.as then buried in. 

He belyvith that none of the said inhabitors ar exemptyd^ as 
is articulate ; for so moche as they are parishioners, ought to 
be contributors for fyndynge of bread and wyn and reparacion 
of the church and church yarde of St. Oswalde^ namly, the 
sought yll of the said St. Oswald church, and westermor quarter 
of the church yard, next the well banks ; and doith contynew 
still as parishioners payinge yerely to the parish clerke of St. 
Oswald's, upon Saint Margaret's day, ayther 6d^ or 4d. and his 
dyner. Signum + Johannis Watjson. 

Henrt Righerdson, of Elvett, weifer, aged 60 years. 

He saithe that the composition articulate doith not take 
away any of ther accustomed dewties to be doon to ther head 
mother church of St. Oswald's ; sainge that for lake of ther 
dewties doinge to the said head kirke, this examinate haith 
hard ytt redd out of the church boke of St. Oswald that the 
inhabitors of St. Oswald might take the font out of the said 
chappeU, and also the leads of the chappell. 

He saith that, in tyme of this examinate's remembranc, thois 
of St. Margaret's haith used to minister sacraments and sacra- 
mentalls in the said chappell upon licens, as is aforesaid, not- 
withstanding that yf the said chappell were suspendyd or tro- 
bled with the plage, then theye of St. Margarett's came to 
St. Oswald's, and buryed or hadd other dewties. 

He saith that thei of St. Margaret's, upon licens by hym 
predeposed, have used to minister the Lord's supper, baptisme, 
mariadges, and buriall, in ther chappell; doing ther dewties 
notwithstandyng to St. Oswald's in ther caises following. 
First, in contributynge to the reparinge of St. Oswald's churche, 
and namelye the south syd, in the tyme of this examinate's 
remembrance by one Robert Harvye, then churchwarden of 
St. Margaret's, laing a paynted peice of tymbre for a wall plate, 
yett ther remaining ; and repairinge the churche yarde in the 
north-west comer, to the well bancks, viz. frome the comer of 
the Ankeridge close to St. Oswald's well ; and paid holly bread 



278 DKP08IT10NS AND OTHER 

rillver for the supportinge of bread and wyne, vis. iii latten 
service tyme l^d. in money and l<f. in bread, and within thes 
16th yeres money for the fyndinge of bread and wyne to the 
communion. And in tyme of latten service one of the church 
WBUdens of St* Margaret haiih used upon Palme Sonday to 
beir one of the 4 poolls over the sacrament ; and upon St. 
Margaret day, in the tyme of bitten service, the parish clerke 
of St. Oswald had ever wont to have Ad. in money and his 
dyner; and senc that tyme every yere 6d.; and so haith 
receyved of Wm. Rawe of St« Margaret's this yere. 

Sig^um + Henrici Richbrdson. 

Bartram Hoords of Wytton Gilbert, yoman, alias glover, 
aged 67 years. 

This examinate was a dweller in Framwelgait, in the said 
8t. Margaret's parish, and contynued ther by the spaic of 47 
yeres. 

He referrith hym to the composicion articulate, which this 
examinate beliveth is in Sant Margaret steple ; saing that for 
the spaic of 47 yeres last past this examinate haith known all 
inhabitants articulate to have had and receyved all thois dewties 
and sacraments articulate in the said church of St. Margaret's, 
as parishiobers of the same ; saving that, iii the plage tyme, 
within this 40 yeres, when sick folkes had lodges maid upon 
the more and at Bellacis head, such as died then that was of the 
said inhabitors was buried in the church yarde of St. Oswald 
upon the south syde of the same ; for that they of St. Margaret's 
wolde not smatter ther own church yard with thoise that then 
died in the plage. Examined of the nombre of the corssis that 
was buried in the said church yarde of St. Oswald's, he saith 
but one or two, and what ther names wer this examinate cannott 
remembre. Examined wberfore the corsis of any of the said 
inhabitors was buried in the said church yard of St. Oswald, be 
saith, that by reason that the said inhabitors every 7 yere paid 
hally bread syllver, viz. 3i for every Sonday in the hole yere 
during the said seaventh yere. He, as an inhabitor abovesaid, 
haith paid the said silver when yt came to his course. 

Signum + Bartram i Horde. 



ECCLB8IASTICAL PKOCSBDINGS. 2j0 

Thomas Wayman of Warrelhil, near Durham^ yoinan, aged 
60 years. 

This examinate^ being bom in the said parish of St« Mar- 
garet, haith contjnfiewed ever sence an inhabitor ther, save only 
one half yere that he dwelt in St Oswald's parish. He saithe that 
the said church of St. Margaret's have had all manner of sacra- 
ments, as is articulat, ministred in the same ; saing also that^ 
at such tyme as Mr. Whiterasing, Sir Robert Brandlinge, and 
other commissioners for the King's majestic, satt in commission 
here in the Galiley of Durham, of all churches and chappells in 
the said countie, and toke then, by ther auctoritie, vestments, 
coopes, sensors, and other ornaments of the church, away at 
ther pleasour, this deponent, being then one of the churchwar- 
dons of Saint Margaret articulate, the said commissioners 
admitt the said chappell to be a parish churche, and free of 
itself; and not any chappell dependynge, as yt was then men- 
cioned to be ; but after what sort yt was allowed, or who spake 
then against the said church of St. Margaret's, this examinate 
cannott depose. 

He saith that he knoweth not of any composicion but by 
report ; but thoise streits and places libellate have, in the tyme 
of this examinate's remembranc and bifore, receyved the sacra^ 
ments of the Lord's supper and baptym, and have solempnised 
mariadge, and buried ther dead in St. Margaret's church and 
churchyard, notwithstanding the inheritors of St. Margaret's 
parish have, in case of neid, as in tyme of plage or interdiction, 
a right and libertie to recejrve the sacraments, mary, christen, 
or burye in the parish church of St. Oswald ; and ther upon the 
inhabitants of St. Margaret's ar chardgeable to repair the south 
^yd of St. Oswald's church and churche yarde ; and customable 
liaith paid hallibred every 7 yere, viz. 3^. by housholde. And 
this examinate. remembrith that his father, William Wayman, 
being one of the churchwardons of St. Margaret's, about 50 
yeres agoo, was keper of one of the kees of a chiste standing in 
St. Oswald church, wherein was the Jewells apperteyninge the 
said churche ; and upon occasion of one Chapman of Billing- 
ham, which maryed one Robert Burgeses doughter of Elvett, 
they of St. Oswald's syd having ther key reddy and wantyngc 



280 DEPOSITIONS AND OTREB 

the key of St. Maigaiet, byrat open the locke ; ivhereupon grew 
a groudge, and haith contvnewed ever sence bytwixt the said 
parishes^ and gave occasion to the said inhabitants of St. Mar- 
garet's to withdrawe ther accustomed dewties, except hoUybread 
silver, which haith bein accustomable paid. 

Signum + Th. Wayman* 

John Bbtson of Crosgait, aged 65 years. 

This examinate reinembrith that one Robert Dixson wyf 
and thre children, which died in the plage, was all 4 beried in 
St Oswald's church yard. Signum Johannis + Bbtson. 

William Fabbeless of Elvett, weiver, aged 57 years; 
[C. f. 421.] 

This examinate haith bein a dweller and inhabitor within the 
said parish of St. Oswald, and in Elyet, a streit next adjoyning 
to the same church of St. Oswald's, by the space of 40 yeres and 
more ; during all which tyme this examinate, being some tyme 
servant and prentiss with Anthony Patteson, churchwarden of 
the same church, and also sagarston of the same church 20 
yeres togither, and lastly churchwarden also hymselfe, and so 
was privy to the recknings and accompts and right of the 
parish ; wherby this examinate veryly [believetb] the contents 
of thoys 2 articles to be trewe ; saing that he, this examinate, 
dwelt nigh one old preist, cauld S' Richard Bennett, clark, whidi 
died 20 yere senc, of whom this deponent haith hard say that 
the inhabitors of Framwelgait maid suit and obteyned licenc of 
the Prior then of Durham abbay and the head men of St. Oswald 
parish to build the said chappell of St. Margarett's, and was 
appointyd to buyld the said chappell upon a hill beyonde the 
old bridg, now cauld Framwelgait bridge, wherby, by report of 
other aidged men, the said Pattenson, Mr. Richard Beuth, Mr. 
WardaiU, that the church of St. Oswald was the head kirke, 
and St. Margaret a chappell apperteyning to the said St. 
Oswald's. 

Saing also, that, at the great dead tyme about 37 or 38 yeres 
ago, the said inhabitants in all the streits articulate dyd calence 
ther part and porcions of the church yarde of the sayd St. 
Oswalde to berye ther dead. At what tyme this examinate 
remembers very well that one Robert Dixson wyfe, of the 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 281 

Amblihge bames, and other mo^ was buryed in St. Oswald's 
church yard betwixt the two waies on the southwest syde of the 
churchy the one way going to the myhi, and the other to the 
ancarhouse. Examined de causa scientiaB, he saith at that 
tyme the said Anthony Patenson^ his m^'^ was visityd with the 
plaig ; and so this examinate, being for his said master^ was 
privye to the premisses, and hept to make graves. 

Every inhabitor within any of the streits libellate is pa- 
rishioners of the parish of St. Oswald's as well as this examinate 
is^ and ought to doo all dewties as parishioners to the same 
church as to ther head kirke ; and that about 30 yeres agoo^ 
and senc^ the inhabitors apperteyning to the chappell of St. 
Margaret's, according as ther course fell, to have brought every 
sonday ther hallybread caike in a towell open on ther brest, 
and laid yt downe upon the ende of the hye alter of St. Oswald^ 
and l^d. in money also with the said caik ; and the clerke toke 
the caik, and the proctor the silver ; and affcer the caik was hal« 
lowed, the said clerk cut off a part of the said caike, cauld the 
hally breid cantle, to gyve to ther next neighbour, whose 
course was to gyve the holly bread the next sonday then next 
after; and this order was comonly used of all the inhabitors 
apperteyning to the said chappell of St. Margarett's, so long as 
the order and gyving of the hollibred sylver dyd remaine^ re- 
feringe hym to the Quene's boke. 

Signum + Willielmi Fabbblbss, 



CCCXI. Thomas Manwall against Hrlinob Colson 

IN CAUSA MATBIMONIALI. [D. f. 18.] 

William Stobyb of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, yoman, alias 
porter of the water, aged 40 years. 

He haith knowen the said Manwell of a child, being his this 
examinate's kynesman, viz. brethren and suster^s children ; and 
the said Colson about 4 yeres last past. 

About thre yeres sench, to this examinate's remembranc, and 
aboute mawinge tyme, what certein day this deponent cannott 
depose, but that yt was upon a worke day byfore none, this 



289 DXPOSITION8 AND OTHSB 

ezamiiiate being at his awne dwelling bouse in Balygaii here 
the Castle moote, the said Thomas Manwell cam in by chance 
in to this deponent's house^ and drank a pott of drinke with 
this ezaminate and his wyfe.; at what tyme the said Thomas 
jrequiered that he mij^t have one to goo for the said Helenor, 
to come to hym^ the said Thomas. And at his request this 
deponent sent his maid for the said Helioner; at what tyme 
^e said Thomas, and she the aforesaid Elinor, had communi- 
cacion of mariadg to be had bytwixt them 2, being then both 
firee from any former contract, to this ezaminate's knowledg. 

He saith, upon his othe, that at the said tyme, to this exami'^ 
Hate's remembranc, the said Thomas asked first the said Helynor, 
talkinge of the matter, yf that she were the same woman she 
was at ther last being togither; and she the said Helinor 
annswerdy Tee, oertainely, that she was. Then spoke the said 
Thomas to hir in this maner, and said '^ Tf ye be, Helinor, then 
I, Thomas, take you EHynor, to my wyf, and forsake all women 
for you, so longe as we 2 shall lyre togither ; and thereto I plight 
you my fedth and trewth to be your husband." And thereupon 
the said Elynor answerd and said^ ^ I, Helinor, also do take you, 
Thomas, to my husband, forsaking all men for you, so long as 
we two shall lyre together; and thereto I plight you my faith 
•and trewth to be your wyfe.'^ 

He saith that, immediately after the said Helinor had plight 
her fiiith and treweth to the said Thomas, and Thomas Manwell 
had doon to hir, then the said Manwell toke a rose noble of 
gold out of his purse, and bowed the same, and in the presenc 
of this examinate, and his said wyf, gave the same noble to the 
said Helinor for a token. And then she, the said Helinor, 
imediady then after opened hir pusse, and gave the said Thomas 
'ManweU a rynge of silver havynge 2 hands, one of them in 
another, and gilte with golde. 

The said Thomas toke ship and sayld within 3 or .4 daies then 
next after, and was upon the sees 2 yeres and ^ togither, that 
no word came of hym ; but at the last that he, the said Thomas, 
shuld be deid and goon. 

He saith that, to his belive, the said Thomas and Helinor ar 
'man and wyfe byfore God. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS, $89 

This examinate, cauling to his remembranc that' at such tyrne 
as the said Thomas was so longe away, and the report that he 
was dead, by reason the said Thomas 2 brethren, John and 
James Manwell^ maid a great stur in David Read's house in 
Newcastell for the said Thomas ther brother goods ; the said 
Helyn, upon the same reporte, dyd bytrowth hir with, one Bout« 
flower^ that nowe suith hir for mariadge : at the hering wherof 
this examinate came to the said Helinor^ and asked hyr yf she 
had promessed hyrself to another then the said Thomas Man-^ 
well; and she answerd that she, by hyr father mocion, had so 
doon ; for the said Thomas brothers had reportyd that he, the 
said Manwell, was dead, and she was therby at libertie, and 
was mynded to lyve by the quicke when she culd not by the 
dead. Signum + Willielmi Stobyb. < 

Richard Brackenbrough, joieneri alias yoman, aged about 
28 years. 

He saith that, about 3 yere senc in somer season, what other 
certain tyme this examinate caniiott depose, upon the said 
Manwell going to the said Janett father, Robert Colson, houses 
cauld of this examinate; and Cuthbert Ellison, his contest^ 
being at the head of the Syde in Newcastell, and requier them 
2 to goo with hym to goodman Colson, and said that he wold 
bestow the drinke of them. And this examinate asked the said 
Manwell what busynes he had so ferr up in the town, who 
answerd that he shuld knowe yf he wold goe with hym the said 
Thomas ManwelL And this examinate and the said Ellison 
therupon went with the said Thomas to Denton chair, wher the 
said Robert Colson dyd dwell, and in the way thither Manwell 
declared his mynd to this examinate and the said Ellison, which 
was, that he was a suiter and bair good will in the way of 
mariadg to Helyn Colson, the said Robert doughter ; and i^t 
that tyme the said Thomas and Helen talked togither very 
familierly in the presenc of the said Robert and this examinate 
and the said EUison^ in the said Robert haule house upon a 
halliday at aftemoone : the said Helyn then had bein brayinge 
groots. By me, Rychard Brakenbye. 

. John Lawson of Newcastle-upon-Tyne^ spurrier, aged about 
40 years, - 



f 84 DBP08TTI0N8 AND OTHBft 

He suth that, about mydsomer was a twehnonth last past, 
this examinate, being the gonner in one shipe of Newcastell 
cauld Georg Bewyke, and in EUsenewyr nigh Denmarke^ meit 
with a ship of London canld Thomas Allen ; and one Anthony 
Farreles, and Roland Ruter, 2 of this ezaminate*s company, 
asked the men in the ship of London of and for Thomas Man- 
well, saing emongest themselves that his wench thought long of 
hym, naminge the said Ellyn Colson ; to whom this examinate 
answerd, That is more than ever I hard, ^' Teis,'' saith the said 
Anthony and Roland, ^ the matter is maid up bitwixt the 2, and 
tokens gyven/^ And this examinate still kept argument with 
them, and said he might cast his cap at hir. And Farreles 
offerd then to lay 20 nobles that yf Manwell were alyfe, and 
came home, he wold mary hir, the said Helyn, and no otheir; 
saing further, that after Christenmas last past this examinate 
fortuned to speake with the said Helyn in hir father's house, 
which was then reportyd to be handftistyd with one John Bout- 
flower, to whom this examinate said, '^ Helyn, I hard that you 
were promessed to Thomas Manwell, and shuld you now have 
John Boutflower?'' And she said, yf the said Manwell were 
alyye, he had hir futh and treweth ; she culd gyve yt to no other. 

Signum + Johannis Lawson, 



CCCXII. Mabgarbb Wobmblbt against Edmund 
Hodgson in causa matbimoniali. [D. f. 27.] 

Edmund Hodgson of Cockerton, husbandman, aged about 
AO years. 

He saith that, about Michelmes two yeres last past, tfai^i 
examinate, being free frome all former contracts, had communis 
t;acion with the said Margarie of mariadg, on the baksyd of 
Thomas Hodgson's house of Darlington, byfore certain frends, 
viz., Thomas Hodgson, Richard Daniell, and the said Margare 
mother; but whither she, the said Margarye, was then free 
frome all former contracte, this examinate cannot depose, for 
that she was then in name with one Francis Castell, then Mr. 
Clarves man. 



BCCLB8IASTICAL PROCBBBINGS. 285 

He saith that ther was never any tokens gyvin nor sent to 
this deponent by or firome the said Margarye, no^ not so moch 
as a handkeircher. Marye, this examinate gave the said Mar- 
garye an olde grote, upon frenshipe^ but as no token, Saing 
that, about one moneth next after the communicacion had ben 
bitwixt this examinate and the said Margarie, this deponent, 
having newe sette up husbandry^ had an ox that torfled. At 
what tyme, upon the frendship of the said communicacion 
bitwixt this deponent and the said Margary, this examinate 
went to Croft, to the said Margarie's father, and maid his moone 
unto hym to have some heipe ; which answerd this examinate 
that he culde not helpe hym. And this deponent requierd 
then the said Margary father to borrow hym so moch money as 
wold bye an ox. He then said that he wold not ; he was not 
used to borrowe any. And then the said Margary said to this 
deponent, ^' Edmund Hodson, I am sory that my father will 
not help you, and yett I knowe he haith ytto helpe you; never 
the less, for the good will that haith bein bitwex you and me, 
I will lend you 20s. unto Pentecost next, to help you to an ox ;'' 
saing the 20s. is nott yett repaid the said Margarye. 

Margery ever maid small accompte of any communicacnoa 
that had bein bitwixt them 2, when as this examinate dyd 
chardge hir therwith, she sainge, ^^ Take as good held to your 
self as ye can; I mynd to be tytter * providyd for then ye wote, 
and wUl take both plight and perell of any thinge you can 
chard me withall.'^ Signum + Edmundi Hodgson. 



CCCXIII. Thb will of Matthbw Mubton, of Bbrwick 

UPON TwBBD. 1575« [D. f. 50]. 

John db Fawsydb, of Norham, yoman and bailif, aged 
about 57 years. 

He saith Matthew articulate dyd make the said Thomas 
Braydfurth his executor, with his the said Matthew wyffe and 
sone. He saith that he, this examinate^ maried the said 



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286 BBPOSITIONS AND OTHBB 

Matihew natamll saster ; he, this examinate and his wyffis, irtras 
2 or thre nights with the said Mathewe immediatly byfore his 
deathe ; and this examinate was sent by the said Mathewe for 
the said Thomas Bradfurth, at whose comming the said Ma- 
thewe sayd, ^* Gossop Bradfurth, I sent for you ; and for that I 
am erased and sore visytyd^ and my wyfe crith of me to make 
my will ; and I make you and my wyfe and my sone execu- 
tours/' '^ Nay/' saith the said Thomas Bradfurth^ ^^ mak me 
your supervisor/' The said Thomas aunswerd and said^ '^ Te 
shalbe my executour with my wyfe and my sone, ye thre to 
gither; for I gatt that thing that I am possessed upon under 
you/' And further this depoi^ent saith, upon his oothe, that 
be belyvith the will in parchement annexed to this libel is and 
was the trew will of Mathew Murton, and that Qarman Gardner 
wrote the same. And this examinate, Davy Cowthird, and 
this deponent wyfe, was then al present at that tyme. 

Signum + Johannis Fawstd. 



CCCXIV. Proceedings against James Walton for 

LAYING violent HANDS UPON THE CURATE OF LaN- 
CHESTBR IN THE ChURCHTARD. [D. f. 55.] 

The personal answer of Jambs Walton to the libel of 
Richard Mylner^ clerk.* 

James Walton of Lanchester, yoman, alias laborer^ aged 
about 30 years. 

Neither this examinate nor his brother, Thomas Walton, ever 
did lay in wayt nor frayd off the said Sir Richard Mylner, in 
any malicious intent orgrieff, as is articulate, nor otherwaies. 

This examinate dyd never speke any raling wordes to or of 
the said Richard, nor drewe any dagger at the said Sr Richard, 
but only drew his dagger for and in defence of hym self. He 
saith, upon his ooth, the said Thomas at that tjrme had no 
dagger about hym, nor drewe them at all, nor spoke any raling- 

* For an earlier incident jof tbM person^s hiBtory, see p. 199. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCBBDINGS. 287^ 

wordes of the sud S' Richard; he dyd nothing but only for saff 
gaird of his this examinate lyfe. Signum + Jacobi. 

29 Ap. 1575. John Hopper of Shynkley^ near Durham^ 
husbandman^ aged about 40 years. 

Richerd Mylner, articulate, about Wytsonday S yere last 
paste, was in one Herrison house of Lanchester, in the com« 
peny of one Lancelott Wilkinson and others ; at what tyme the 
said S^ Richerd, being mery with drinke, maid a quarrell to this 
examinate, being then Mr. Lever's man,* which had h&n at 
Muggleswyk with four score lambs, and, in commyng home- 
wards to Washington, cauldior a pott of dryiUce at the said 
Herrison's house. At what tyme the said Sir Richard misused 
this examinate and cauld hym '^ roge,^' and wold neids have 
hym to the stoks as a roge, for any thing that this examinate 
culde alledge or saye; and rent this examinate's ooote he had 
on at that tyme, bycause he this deponent wold not. go to the 
stoks by his commandement. At what tyme the said Lancelot 
wilde this examinate to be content, saing that he, this exami* 
nate, shuld take no harme ther, and that the preist, Sir Richerd^ 
was nott then to talke withdl. And the said Lancelott, and one 
Rippon, and James Walton, brought this examinate's horse to 
the back door in the said Herryson's bouse. And then, inmie* 
diatlye, the said George Herson and the said Sir Richard was at 
bye words concerning this examinate, as he bdevith. At what 
tyme the said Herrison wyfe gave a skiike, which this deponent 
hard ; and farther he cannott depose, for he cam nott backe 
again. Signum + Johannis Hopper. 

^ 29 Ap., 1575. Thomas Rippon, of Lanchester, husband** 
man, aged about 40 years. 

. He saith that the said Sir Richerd doith use aile houses in 
the town of Lanchester, and speciall George Herrison's ther^ 
wher this examinate haith sein hym dronken that the housd 
and the company ther was evill trobled with hym, by reason of 
frayes this examinate haith sein hym make ther, viz., with the 
said George Herrison, about fyve yere agoo, in the presens of 

* Ralph Lever, rector of Washington, was also prebendary of Durham, and, in 
right of his stall, pOBBeesed lands at Muggleswick, which he seems to baVe held in his 
•wnoocnpatioB. »••.».. i ^ ■ • . * 



288 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

Lanoelott Wilkinson^ James Wawlton^ one George Manyer, 
William Jax8on> and this examinate. Examined de causa 
scientiae, he saith^ for the misosinge of the said Georg geists, 
viz., the said Hopper, his precontest, which had his clothes rent 
of hym by the said S' Richerd at that tyme^ and was conveyed 
on the baksyd of the said Herrison house by the said Lancelot 
and this examinate ; at what the said S' Richerd, being bairhed, 
ran after the said Herrison with a drawen dagger. He saith 
that the said George then told this examinate, which came to 
reskew^ that bycause the said Georg fond fault with the said 
S' Richerd for misusing his gyeists. + 

29 Apr., 1575. Robert Hormesbte, of Lanchester, parish 
clerke, yoman, aged about 40 years. 

He saith that the said Richerd usith commonly one ailhouse 
within the township of Lanchester, which is George Herrison^ 
and that house only, for compeny of honest persons that re- 
sortith thither. And some tpxie, by reporte, the said S' 
Richerd wil be mery with drinke ther, but not dronken, to this 
examinate's knowledge ; for that he woll then immediatly after 
reid.and say his service distynctly, without any fault to be 
found ; and at no tyme so distemperd but that he culde gyed 
hym self, in his going to and from his chamber, without any 
Tomett, faul, stumbling, or help of any person ; and for feight^ 
ing in any ailehouse tins examinate cannott depose> for he never 
.aawe the said S' Richerd so doo. 

He saith that, about the tyme articulate, this examinate r&* 
membrith upon one Sonday or hoUyday the said S^" Richard, 
beinge reding a chappiter of the Old Testament, at the tyme of 
eavoning praier, dyd se the said James Wawton come into the 
church, and therupon the said S^ Richerd staid his reidyng, 
and said, ^^Here is naither meit place, or servic for the.^' 
And, immediately after the speaking of thes wordes, the said 
.8'' Richerd redd out the said chappitour, and said the resydew 
of the evening praier, quietly, without any more suche talke. 
. He saith that, after the evoning praier that night, the said 
James Walton was • • • • upon the kirk wall ther; and when 
lie sawe the said Sir Richerd. goo homeward, the said James 
maid a syne to Thomas Walton • , and so 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 28d 

the said Thomas dyd in this examinate's 

after this, examinate being in the church and hering a great 

dyn in the faw to se what the 

matter was ; and at that tyme this examinate dyd se the said 
Sir Richerd comynge in the said fauld garth towers his owen 
chamber, having his gown one, and one of his hands bleiding, 
and his dagger in his other hand. At what tyme this examinate 
dyd se Michaell Myhier, the said Sir Richerd sonne, smyte 
with a staff at the said James; and the aforesaid James, havinge 
a moch longer staff, kepet the said Michaell of hym, so that 
ther was no hurt. And then came the said Thomas Wawton 
behynd the said Mychaell, and smote hym over upon a donghill 
ther. And then the said Sir Richerd cast his gown, and gott a 
staff, and maid towerd the said James, and one Henry Thomson 
preised to hold the said Sir Richerd, sainge — ^^ Will ye holde 
me, and seith them kill my sone ?'' And therupon the said Sir 
Richerd and James fraied and smote to gither, and James 
Wawton smote the staffe out of Sir Richerd hand, and the said 
Sir Richerd returned to his chamber again bairhead, bleiding 
upon his head. 

. He saith that he beliveth the said Sir Richerd was hurte by 
the said James Wawton, but whither in the said James defenc 
or no, he cannott depose. 

He, this examinate, haith not sein any tokenes of dronknes 
by the said Sir Richerd, but that he culd ever gyed and govern 
hymself. 

He, this deponent, hard the said Sir Richerd say — '^ I am a 
man off peac, and ye seik this of me.'' Robert Ornsbet. 

William Gelson, of Lanchester, houswright, aged 50 
years. 

He saith that the said Sir Richerd, for the most part, doith 
kepe his owne chambre, and not use the articulate house, but 
at certain tymes ; and wilbe some tyme mery and light with 
drink, and short tonged, but nott dronken nor gyven to 
feighdnge. 

George Hbrrison, of Lanchester, yoman, aged 36 years. 

He saith Sir Richerd doith often use to aile howses in the said 
township of Lanchester, ass moch for compenye as for drinke, 

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290 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHBB 

and most commonly attliis ezaminate's house ; and wilbe often 
tyme mery with drinke, and not so wise then as at other tymes^ 
and yett never sicke tberwith or gyyen to vomytt, but alwaies 
able to rewill hymself at that tyme. 

9 July, 1575, William Hodgson,* of Maner House, gent., 
aged 50 years. 

He haith knowne the said Richerd Mylner by the spaic of 
18th yeres—an honestman in good name and &me, and ever 
taken and reportyd unto nowe of layt that his adrersaries haithe 
accomptyd hym otherwaies — ^no common dronkerd, quarreller^ 
nor brawler, nor common haunter to tarems and alehowses, 
otherwaies than for his necessarye meat and drinke. He haith 
many tymes comed to the eavoning praier in Lanchester 
church, and haith hard the said Sir Richerd so discreatily say 
bis seryic, and use hymself, (although he was then but newly 
commed firome the ailehouse, as the aforsaid Richerd dyd the 
same day at the morning praier), without any fault to be found. 

He belyvith the said Sir Richerd is a very earnest malincolye 
man, and some tyme gyven to be angrye, and yett not in such 
raidge, that ever this deponent knewe, that therin he was gyyon 
to fight or brawle. — Wm. Hodshon. 

William HALL,t of Oreincroff, gent., aged about 40 years. 

Belyvith veryly that the said Sir Richerd is a right honest 
and discreat man, and no common dronkerd, brawler, nor 
quarreler. This deponent haith at many and sondrye tymes 
bein in the said Sir Richerd compenie, bothe here in Durham, 
as also in Lanchester, at many feastes, weddings, maches, 
shotyngs, djniners, and drinkins,]: when this deponent came to 
Greincroff, in his lait cosing Mr. John Hall tyme; and yet he, this 
examinate, never knew or sawe any thingto the said Sir Richerd 
otherwaies than yt becomith an honest man and good companion. 

William Grinwell, of Hulferbush, laborer, aged 55 years. 

The same night, about 7 of the cloke, to his remembranc, this- 
examinate wasi sent for to his owne dwellinge house by the said 
Sir Richerd to come to Lanchester to hym, at what tyme this 

\' * See a pedigree of this fiunily in Surtees, toI. II. p. 319. 
J + See pedigree, Surtees, vol. II. p. 323. 
:{: Another witness introduces ^^hoppings.'* 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 291 

deponent found the said Sir Richerd in his chambre at Lan- 
chester, in his bedd, and soore hurt upon his hand with the 
pike of a staffs to this examinate's judgment, and also hurt of 
the head^ thre fynger lenght^ with the pyke of a staffe also, by 
that this examinate culd perceyve, which then dyd dress booth 
the said wownds^ which were open woundes for the tyme, and 
dyd also then dress the same^ and haith heiled them by the 
grace of God. Capt. 29 Ap. 1575, coram domino judice. 

Signum + Willielmi Grinwell. 

Thomas Robinson, servant of Mr. William Hodgson, of 
Maner House, yoman, alias servingman, aged about 32 years* 

He saith that, about the tyme articulate, this examinate and 
James was syttinge togither at the Deanry yaitts of Lanchester,' 
communinge of sondry matters, and anon this examinate dyd 
see the said Sir Richerd, one Mebom^ and certain women^ thre 
or 4, cominge from George Herrison's, and this examinate rose 
and came to the said S' Richerd^ which was going to the even- 
ing praier ; and after thir communicacion the said S' Richerd 
requierd this examinate to go bake with hym to his chambre^ he 
must neids speake with this deponent to send a messaidge with 
hym to his m'; and therupon this examinate came with the 
said S' Richerd, who told this deponent that he had bein about 
to order a matter bitwixt John Haswell and William Grinwell, 
which were and (? at) treble, but he trusted yf he culd speak 
with this examinate's m', master Hodgson, to bring the matter 
to some good ende. And then this examinate, comming with 
the said S' Richerd towerds his chambre, the said James 
Wawton and Thomas Wawton, sytting togither att the gaitts- 
head, neigh the said preist's chambre, the said James said, 
« What maks you so hye, S^ Richerd V^ Who aunswerd that 
he had bein about a grement, and declared again the matter as 
he had said immediatly byfore to this examinate. Then said 
the said James, "What have ye adoo with that?^^ " Yeis, I 
have to do therwith, bycause they ar my parishioners.'' Then 
the said Wawton replied still to the contrary, for that one of 
the parties was boundon to peac, and swore by God's name yf 
yt wer his matter, he, the said Sir Richerd, shuld have nothing 
to doo therein. <* Yees,'' saith the said S"" Richerd, "yf the 

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292 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

partie greved sought to me^ I wold have to doo therein by the 
auctorite I have under my Lord of Durham, to bringe them to 
good order and quietness/' ^ Wawd (would) thou,'^ saith the 
said James, ^' thou droucken horemonger preist ?'^ to whom the 
said Sir Richerd answerd and said, 'Oames, I have bein 
punished for my hordom, and the part I dyd ; saing yee ar my 
neighbours, a good feUow and nowe an honest man, I pray yow 
to leave such talke/' And still the said James contynewed in his 
nddge, bragging and swerynge, and said that he wold ''whapp 
his coott,'' and willed the said Sir Richerd to appoint the plac, 
and he wold meit hym in any place he durste. ** Nay,^' saith 
the said S' Richerd, '^ I am a man of peace/^ This deponent, 
being wery of such talk, moved the said Sir Richerd to goo to 
the church to the praier and reason no more with hym, the said 
James. At whose modon the said Sir Richerd went into the 
church yarde, and with that came one Anthonye Lonsdaill, this 
examinate's fellow in houshold, and asked what grief • • . • 
that thei maid ? And James Wawton answerd, '^ This drouken 
horem' preist, that is busye in every man's matter/' Then said 
Sir Richerd, ^ Goo thy way, thou art an evill man/' ''Yee,*' 
saith the said Wawton, '^ thou drouken villan, come again, if 
thou dare, and feight with me yf thou darr/* *' Nay," quoth 
the said Sir Richerd, '' I am a man of peace ; but I will come 
to the, perchance, when thou art in a better mynd/' And the 
said S' Richerd, comming towerd the said Wawton, he the' 
said James drewe his dagger. *' Nay,'* said the said Lonsdaill, 
*' ye shall not feight/' And, at the sight of Waton dagger, the 
said Sir Richerd began to drawe also his dagger, and had the 
same half out ; and this examinate toke hold of his Sir Richerd 
arme, and badd hym be contente and go to his servic. At 
whose mocion the said Sir Richerd was staid and went into the 
church, the said James still raUng and saing that he was not 
in Englond that wold feight with hym, the said James, in the 
said Sir Richard quarrell. And further this examinate cannott 
depose for any matter betwixt them* Thomas Robinson^ 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 293 



CCCXV. Elizabeth Shawteb^ widow, against Henry 

Parkinson.* [D. f. 82.] 

The examinacion of Anthonys Taylboyes of Skirningham, 
esquier, of the adge of 48*^ yeres or thereabouts, swome and 
examoned upon his othe, saythe : 

That he was acquanted with Richerd Shawter, being boithe of 
one parishe, to which examinate the said Shawter did syndrye 
tymes resorte ; and saith, the harvest next before the deathe of 
the said Richerd Shawter, which now come harvest shalbcfowre 
yere, as this examinat remembreth, this examinate, being in the 
fields of Barmeton, in the parish of Haughton, overseying his 
folks gathering a 10^^, which this examinate then hadd in the 
same towne, Richerd Shawter came unto this examinate, ridinge 
upp and downe in the said feilds, and prayed this examinate 
that the said Shawter mighte be so boulde as to axe this exami- 
nate^s advise in [a] matter which he wold faine move unto hym, 
this examinate. To whome this examinate aunswered and 
willed hym to saye what he wolde. Then the said Shawter 
begon and tolde this examinate that the matter wherein he was 
to crave his advise conceminge the bestowinge and bringing 
upp of his two sonnes, and said that he wold be glad to bestowe 
them by this examinate's advise, with there portions, where 
they mighte be well and vertuouslie broughte upp : saying 
further, that he was changed frome a purpose, which he once 
was determyned upon, which was, that he did once meane to 
putt them unto Beamonthill ; but for certaine ungentlenes which 
he had founde there he was altred frome that purpose, and 
named certaine causes of unkyndenes. One was for that he, 
having an oxgange of lande of theirs lieing unto his house in 
Haughton, they of Beamonhill had taiken jrt frome hym, and 
sould yt unto an other ; which thinge he toke in some parte of 
greife. He said also he perceyved that there countennces were 
not frendlie towardes hym as before they hadd beine, which he 
well perceyved, because they were not so familier with hym as 

. * Of Beaumond Hill, near Darlington. See Pedigree, Surtees, vol. III. p. 347. . 



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in tyme past they had beine, nor used his counsell in there 
matters of husbandrie as before they had doone, whereby he 
thooghte them not so frendlie as he loked to have founde them ; 
and assigned thes things for the cause why he wold not proceade 
there as he was once determined; and therefore prayed this 
examinate's counsell what waye he were best taike with his said 
children. This ezaminate^ hering his request^ began to advise 
him to beware how he departed with his goodes so easilie^ 
wiUinge him to ponnder well of yt ; saying tmto hym that if he 
suld put his goods out of his hande, if afterwarde he did mislike 
of it or did repent^ that he wold not f ynde yt so easelie to come 
by them againe ; and therefore this examinate thoughte yt best 
that he kept his goodes in his owne handes till afterwards, and 
thoughte that he hadd tyme enough to deliberat upon this 
matter, the said Shawter then not fearinge, nor this examinat 
then thinkinge that the said Shawter wold have died so shortlie 
after. And this examinat further did advise the said Shawter 
to put the one of his said children to be a prentice to some good 
occupacion, whereby he might be able to eame his leavinge in 
tyme to come, and thereby he mighte be more liberall to that 
childe which he ment to traide and bringe up in husbandrie. 
After such advice geven, there talke ceased for that tyme* But 
this examinat saithe that, syndrie tymes after, the said Shawter> 
meating hym, seamed to have some matter which he wold 
further have brocken, which in dede he never did, by reason that 
the said examinate, at suche meatinge, wente ever about some 
busynes, and hadd haist. And the said Shawter died about 
Chiistenmas after. Whereupon this examinat inferreth that 
the said Shawter hadd not, at that tyme that he axed this 
examinaf s advise, appointed the custodie of his children to any 
bodie. As touchmge any will that the said Shawter did maike at 
the tyme of his deathe, this examinat doithe not knowe, nor 
haithe harde of any, save sithence of a will by which Henry Par- 
kinson doith intitle the custodie of the said children to hym self 
with there porcions, which will beareth dait longe before the 
talke hadd with this examinat, which is before mencioned; which 
Parkinson, notwithstandinge, sewed to have lettres of adminis- 
tracion, betwene whome and Elizabeth Shawter there was greate 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. S95 

suit in the Chauncery of Durham^ of which EUzabethe's coun- 
sell this examinat was in the said suit. 

Anthonys Tailboyes. 



CJCCXVI. Fighting in the Church yard op St« 
OswALD^s, Durham. [D. 97, 115.] 

The personal answer of Henry Kent,* of the city of Dur- 
bam, gent, aged about 30 years. 

He saith that yt ys decent and convenient for every man to 
doo as is articulate, for that the church or church yarde is no 
place to fight or brawle in. 

He belyvith that he haith not misused hym self, as 2 aracr.- 
lat, saing that he this examinate dyd not chyde, quarrell, nor 
brawel against Gilbert Spenc,t to his knowledg ; for when he, 
the said Gilbert, dyd offer to smjrt this deponent, and therupon 
lyfted up his staff or kidgell, offering to smite this examinate, 
wherupon this deponent drewe his dagger to defend hymself, 
but he dyd not smite at the said Gilbert, nor went nott to 
strike at hym, to his remembranc. Marye, when as he this 
examinate drewe to the doore, opening off the church yard ther, 
meaning to enter in, and perceyving that the said Gilbert maid 
towerds this deponent, this examinate catched holde of his 
cloke, which the said Gilbert left in this deponent's hand, so 
that by meanes of one Hodgson ther was neither stroke nor 
hurt doone. Henry Kent. 

Janet, alias Johanna, Martin, wife of Lionell, yoman, 
aged about 19 years. 

This examinate came to the said church yard of Sanct Oswald 
the morrow next after St. Elyn day last past, at after noone the 
same daye, to see [how] hir maid hadd used this deponent's 
clothe, which was then in bleaching ; at what tyme she remem- 
breth well that she did se the said Henrye then in the said 
churche yarde. 

* A stranger employed in snrreying Chantry lands, 'with probably a grant of the 
^ Ancaridge** in his pocket. 
f An eminent notary public, and a proctor in the Consistory Court of Durham. 



296 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

She saith that she dyd here the said Henry speak lewd words 
to Gilbert Spenc, then standing before his the said Gilbert 
owne doore^ in the said church yarde ; bat what the wordes wer 
she cannott depose, for that she was then with hir cloth £arr 
frome them^ saing that she dyd se the said Kent with his daggar 
drawne in his hande, and offerd to smite at the said Gilbert, 
and one man ranne then betwixt them, which this examinate 
knew not. This examinate, and a many other besyd, was 
afraid that ther shuld have ben hurt doon, when they dyd se 
the said Kent dagger drawne, and he therwith offert to smjrte 
the said Gilbert. + 

Janbt Surtes,* late daughter of Ralph Surtes, merchant, 
deceased, singlewoman, aged 23 years. 

She saith diat, the same tyme articulat, to hir remembrance, 
this examinate had bein at St. Oswald well for a skeil full of 
wayter, and comyng frome thens dyd se the said Gilbert and 
Kent over against the Ancaridge doore, in the said church 
yard, at what tjrme the said Gilbert had a walkinge wand in his 
hande, and the said Kent had his dagger drawne, and Bicherd 
Hodgson in Claputh was evon then bitwixt them. This depo- 
nent was the first that skryed them, and upon hir words, when* 
she said and spoke on hye that yonder is a fray, then all the 
women that was bleaching, and such as was spynning, in 
the said church yard, gat on ther feit and went towerds them. 
And this examinat, being loden with a great skeil, went home 
to hir webbs. -h 

Margaret Wilkinson, singlewoman, aged about 20 
years. 

Examined whether the said Kent was then in greif, or no, 
she saith that she beliveth that he was then in angre and greiff, 
or els he wold nott have drawn his dagger, and came, by report, 
to take possession of the Ancaridg house. + 

Elizabeth Ruttbr, of Elvett, widow, aged 43 years. 

The said Kent came into the said church yarde, by the Well 
bancks, and one man with the said Kent, reportyd to be Henry 

* Hie daughter of an alderman of Durham is unable to write her name, and 
bleaches her linen in the churchyard of St. Oswald^s, carrying on her head <' skeil-' 
fulls ^* of water from St. Oswald's well for the purpose. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 297 

Younger. The sidd Kent made great offer and preise to the said 
Gilbert, and wold have bein upon him ; and the said man ran 
bitwixt them, and bair the said Kent back, ever as he preised 
towerd the said Gilbert, and at that very tyme, the said Kent 
did drawe his dagger : they war together the spaic that one 
might goo and come from this place of examinacion to th6 
scholhouse on the Place Grein. -h 

SiBiLLA Hunter, maid servant of Bartram Mytfqrd, single- 
woman, aged about 20 years. 

The fray was endyd byfore she dyd see aither the said G, 
Spense, or Kent; and that the said Gilbert was in his own 
close and had a lane staif in his hande, and was [putting] 
furth one horse that the said Kent wold have put into the said 
close. X 



CCCXVII. Proceedings against John Johnson and 

OTHERS, for laying VIOLENT HANDS UPON JoHN MaRTIN, 

Curate op Sedgefibld, in the Churchyard. [D. 

f. 85b.] ^ 

21 Oct. 1575. The personal answer of John Johnson, 
John Johnson of Sedgefeild, yoman, alias husbandman, aged 
about 35 years. 

He saith that, in the moneith of Mail or June articulate, being 
yett in the present yere 1575, he, this examinate, haith nott at 
any tyme maliciously by wordes quarrelld, chidd, or railed to or 
upon the said John Martyn, clerk,* the minister articulate ; 
saing, further, that he, this examinate, never spoke nor said the 
worde in this article libellat, "Hawg villain! have I nowe 
catched the ? I shall nowe be evon with the.^^ Mary, this de- 
ponent remembreth that, about the 19th of June articulate, this 
examinate and Robert Walker and John Clerk, bein all thre 
with many moo in the church yarde of Sedgfeild, upon a sonday 
after the evyning praier, John Martyn, articulate, being then 

• Probably the same person who was called a " vacobound," and other oppro- 
brious names, whilst curate of Billingham. See p. 242, above . 



898 DBPOBITfONS AND OTHBA 

also in the churcH yarde of Sedgfeild^ which had newly then 
maid a fray upon or with Robert Craropton, or ells the said 
Robert with the said Martyn, for that they 2 had fought togi- 
ther, by the reporte of the said Walker and Gierke, which had 
then after sent for this deponent, being the constable ; and at his 
this examinate's comminge into the said church yarde, he, 
thb deponent, went and commandyd the said John Martyn to 
fynde suertie for the Quene's majesties peac ; which Martyn 
wold fynd no suirtie by any persuasion or gentle mocion that 
this examinate culd then use or make to the said Martyn, but 
misused this deponent, beinge the Quene's majesties constable 
and officer, by unseming words, saing to this examinate, ^^Yt is 
thy knavery and thy practis of this fray bytwixt Crampton and 
me,'' the forsaid John Martyn ; and saing ther also, *' The Quene 
baith knaves to hir officers, and thou ar one of them, being the 
worst,'' saing to and mening upon this deponent; and ther 
upon this examinat toke and caried the said Martyn to the 
stokes. 

He did nott violently, maliciously, or injuriously lay his hands 
of the said John Martyn, but accordinge to his offic, for the 
preservance of the Quene's majestie peac, nor dyd maliciously 
thruste, beit, or use the said Martyn : saing that this examinat, 
havinge holde of the said Martyn gowne, and being without the 
church yarde, and the said Martyn in the church yard, or upon 
the style thereof, this examinate pulling the said John Martyn 
by the said gown, and he the said Martyn hynging backe, and 
not willinge to goo with this examinate, therupon only the said 
John Martyn's gown was rent, and no otherwaies ; saing fur-* 
ther that this deponent then after ledd the said John perforse 
to the stoks, being in the backhouse of Sedgfeild. 

4- John Johnson. 

The personal answer of John Clerk of Sedgfeild, husband^ 
man, aged 30 years. 

This examinate, beinge at the byerlawes without the church 
garth articulate, one Robert Johnson, churchwardon of Sedg- 
feild, cauld this examinate and bad this deponent, being a con- 
stable, and Robert Walker his fellow, to take and cary the 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 299 

minister^ that is^ S' John Martyn articulate, and Robert 
Crampton to the stokes ; wherupon this examinate went towerd 
them and found Crampton sittinge upon a gravestoon, and the 
said minister walkinge at the quere ende ; to whom this exa« 
minate and the said Walker said nothing, but the said Walker 
sent William Walker, his sonne, for John Johnson, an other 
constable, which was then into the north feildes ; who, when 
he came, satt hym down upon a ston; and after reasoning 
of the matter, willyd hym to fynd suirtie: and afterward they 2, 
the said minister and Johnson, agreid nott; wherupon the said 
Johnson toke hym by the arme and drew hym from that place 
to the church gait, and the said John Martyn caught hold of 
one of the pooles of the said gaitts, and said he wold go no 
further ; and Johnson puld hym by the gowne, dyd rend the 
same ; and this examinate, and his fellow Walker, toke the said 
John Martyn by the leggs, and so caryed hym to Parlament 
house, alias the bakehouse, wher the stokes were. And ther the 
said John Martyn was sett in the stoks by John Johnson, whoo 
lyfted up the said stoks then, and also put in the said John 
Maritjm his leg in the said stoks. And this examinate laid the 
said S>^ John Martyn gown under hym, wher he the said Mar- 
tyn contynewed by the spaic of one halff houer. 

Signum + Johannis Clark* 

The personal answer of Robert Walker, laborer, aged 60 
years. 

He agrees with John Clerk, saing further that this deponent 
held up the stok syd unto John Johnson articulate put the 
aforesaid John Martyn into the stokes, for Robert Johnson 
cauld for this examinate and the said John Clerk to loke to 
Crampton, who he said had maid a fray in the church yard; 
and, fyndynge Crampton syttinge upon the graveston and 
the curat articulate walking at the queer end, not knowing what 
to doo in the matter, sent one into the feild for John Johnson ;^ 
and, meiting hym in the streit, told hym of the matter by the 
report of Robert Johnson ; and so they came all thre to gither 
to the stone at the queer door, where they found the curat 
walkinge, and this examinat and Clark went stright way for 
Crampton. And when they returned they fond John Johnson 



SOO DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

and the curat reason[ing] and chidinge about laying in of sewir- 
ties ; and the said Johnson caried the said curat by the arme to 
the church gait and wer chiding then^ the one cauling the other 
'* knave/' And when the said Martyn had taken hold of the 
poste of the church gait, the said John Johnson toke hold of 
hym, the said curat, to have pullyd hym head forward over the 
styU^ the curat lying on the one side. And this examinat and 
the said Clerk held the said Martyn by the legs, to have stayed 
hym ; and in that struggling his gown was rent, and then the 
said Martyn was ledd to the stocks, wher he remaned more 
than one quarter of an houre. 

Signum + Robbrti Walker. 

Witness on the part of John Marttn. [lb. f. 126, &c.] 
Thomas Wheitley of Sedgefeild, laborer, aged 46 years. 
After that Crampton had maid a firaye of the said Martyn^ 
one Robert Johnson cauld for the constable, to carry them to 
the stoks ; and therupon the said John Johnson came, the said 
John Martyn being at the east ende of the church of Sedgefeild, 
and this . . . words to gither; and the said Johnson cauld 
the said Martyn '* knave,^^ and said that he shuld goo to the 
stoks ; and so the said Johnson, Walker, and Clerk, the con- 
stable, togged the said Martyn violently against his will by 
the head and shulder, more lyke a beast then a man, and cared 
hym to the stoks, tearing then also his gown. 



CCCXYIII. Irreverent behaviour in the Chapel of 

Beltingham. [D. f. 88.] 

11 Nov. 1575. The personal answer of Beatrix de Craw- 
hall, widow, gentlewoman, aged about 60 years, to articles 
against her. 

1. She beliveth that article to be trewe, for that every one 
that holdith of God will doo as is therin writton, yf they may 
conveniently. 

3. She saith that article is not trewe, nor any parte of the 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 301 

contents therof^ for this deponent never dyd^ nor thought, as is 
libellat; saing that this last Lent ^e, thisexaminat, was sore 
sike of the great agoew, so that none of hir frendes trowed hir 
life. And in good and godly intent, without any mocking or 
scoffing, she, this deponent, wente to Beltingham chappell to 
receyye hir Maker, on Easter eavon last paste ; being then so 
weake and feble that she went overwhart a staff into the said 
chappell unto she came at the table ende, wher she satt down. 
And at such tyme as Thomas Marshal, the vicar of Hawt- 
wessell, after he had served all the house of Willimontsike,* 
and many other, then he, the said vicar, served this examinate 
with bread, which this deponent receyved reverendly and thank- 
fully, and requierd the said vicar, for the love of God, to gyve 
hir but a litle peic, and somme wynef then after to receyve 
therwith ; alledging then that dry bread wolde nott goo down 
with hir, and that she feired that hir decease wold arise of hir 
yf she had not drinke shortly after. And so many and dyvers 
hard this deponent then say to the said vicar, but he, the said 
vicar, wold not here hir this deponent, nor regaird hir, but 
served moo then 60 persons byfore he, the said vicar, brought 
this examinate any wyne. And in the mean tyme, by reson 
of hir desease that rose upon this deponent, she, this ex- 
aminate, frothed at the mouth, and therby was enforsed to spit, 
which she saith upon hir oothd was of no evill intent, nor dyd 
not att all (praised be God) spitt out the communion bread. 
And otherwayes this examinat belyvith this article not to be 
trew in any parte theroff ; sayinge that she, this deponent, is 
suityd and trobled upon mallis and evill will, and that she hir 
self requireth that she may so sew and declare to Mr. Swyft, 
for the more quieting of hir mynde and conscienc. 

4. She saith that, upon hir ooth, she spoke never to the said 
vicar as is articulat at any time when he was in the pulpet or 
redinge of God's worde ; saing, that at such tyme as the said 
vicar was furth of the kirk, this deponent said to hym that yt 
had bien well doon yf he, the said vicar, had moved the people 
to pray to God for the fructs of the earthe this last harvest, 

* The family of Ridley. See Hodgson^s Northumberland, vol. III. pt. il. p. 340. 
f Drink interlined, but toine not struck out. 



S02 OBPOBITIONS AND OTHEB 

when the corne was grown and mickle lost upon the earthy and 
mickle therof driven away with the wayter; and that worse 
words this examinat said nott to the said vicar. Examoned 
whether she, this examinat, had hir beads in the said church 
and smot with hir hand, as is articulate, ye or no ; she saith 
that trewith yt is she this deponent had hir beads ther, for that 
she cannott se upon hir boke, but dyd not at all smyt with hir 
hand, as is articulate. 

5. She saith that this article is nott trewe, nor no part therof; 
for this examinat never dyd contemp or dispise Godd's worde, 
or the religion that is used at this day. 

Signum Bbatbicis Crawhall. 




CCCXIX. Janeta Spencb contra Robbrtum Wabde in 

CAUSA FOBNICACIONIS AC SUPBB FILIACIONE PROLIS 

DICTA jANBTiB. [6 May, 1575. D. f. 91.] 

Margaret Myddlbton, of Hurwortti, widow, aged 50 
years* 

The said Janett Spenc dwelt with the said Robert Warde 
this last yere, and was begotten with childe in the said Robert 
house, for so the said Janett declared to Sir George Tailyer, 
the parson of Hurworth, and to all the neighbours ther, byfli^e 
she came frome the said Robert servic ; and that the childe that 
she, the said Janett, was then with, was the said Robert Ward's, 
and never named any man or childe to be father of hir said 
childe but the said Robert Warde. And therupon the said 
Robert Warde put hir, the said Janett, out of his servic, and 
she, being a poore wench, sought hir relief emonst neighbours j 
and then after departyd frome the said Hurworth unto the 
tyme of the birth of her childe drew neir, and then came again 
to Hurworth, and contynewed about the said Robert house 
and doores,and wold not depart frome thenc, still affirming the 
said Robert Ward to be father of hir childe. 



BCCLBSIASTIGAL PROCEEDINGS. SOS 

She saith that^ about thre weikes before Candlemas last past, 
upon a Sonday, bytwixt 10 and 12 of the cloke byfore noon, 
the said Janett beinge at the said Robert doore, and like to be 
lost for women's help^ was then, at the mocion of the said 
parson and other good neighbours, taken into one Agnes 
Parker's house, a poore woman ther, and this examinat was 
sent for by Margaret Clarke, a pooi*e wench, to come to the 
said Janett and the good wyfes that were with hyr ; and so this 
examinat dyd; and being hir medwyfe at that tyme, for that 
no other culde be gotten, she, this examinat, refused to deil 
with the said Janet, or to make hir ony succour, unless she 
wolde take hir oothe then byfore God, and the said good wyffes, 
to tell trewly the name of the father of hir childe ; who toke 
upon hir then, with mony oothe and forbotts, that ther was 
never man that was fawter with hir, the said Janett, for the 
said childe, but only the said Robert Warde. + 

Johanna Dande, wife of William Dande, of Hurwortb, 
yoman, aged about 46 years. 

She haith seen hir with child, and, as soon as ever she Vas so 
scried, she the said Janett reportyd the same child she was then 
with, and in the said Janet armes in the court this day, to be 
the said Roberts. + 

CHRisTOPnsR Stokton, alias Stokdaill, of Hurworth, 
yoman, alias husbandman, aged 60 years. 

Haith well known the said Robert Ward this 20 yere, and 
the said Janet onlye this last yere — ^he shuld love the said Robert 
better, bycause he is commed of honest folkes ; and of a good 
frenship, yf his demeanour were accordingly. 

To this examinate's remembrance the said Janet, after 
Christenmas last past, was sytting and crying out at the said 
Robert Ward his doore in Hurworth, so piteouslye, that the 
parson, Sir George Taylyer, of Hurworth, sent for this deponent, 
being one of the churchwardens, to take such order for the 
said Janett Spence, which was then sytting and crying out at 
the said Robert doore ; whom this examinate rebewked, and 
willyd hir to gett into somme houiie ; and she said then[that Parke 
wyfe had putt hir furth of doore ; and ther she said that she 
wold aither dye or lyve at the said Ward's doore, holding her 



S04 DBP08ITION8 AND OTHER 

hands^ and askynge of God that she and the said childe never 
prospered yf yt were not the sliid Robert's. And ther upon 
iher was such a dyn and romge in the streit emangest neigh- 
bours, that at the last one Ward, wyf to the said Robert's 
brother, for honestie of womanheid, sent for a happinge or 
coverlett ; wherupon the said Janett was caried again to the 
said Parke's wyf, by the tretie of this examinate and other 
neighbours. 

He saith that the said Janet was never by any report lykned 
to any man for the getting of the said child, but only the said 
Robert. Signum + Christophsri Stokton. 

Robert Clerks, of Hurworth, husbandman, aged about 
50 years. 

He saith that, at the tyme that God had visytyd the said 
Janett Spenc, immediatly byfore hir delyverye, she, the said 
Janet, lyinge in the streit at the said Robert doore, crying 
pyttifully, the parson. Sir George, sent for this examinate to 
take some order for hir, which was lyke to be lost for gyidinge 
and loking too — she, the said Janett, toke upon hir that the 
childe that she was then with was the said Robert's, or ells 
besought God that she never wer otherwaies then she was at 
that tyme. — ^The said Robert would have gyven the said Janett 
lid., at this examinate's mocion, when he came to move hym 
to take to the childe yf yt were his, saing, '^ I am no fawtour 
with hir, and yet I wold gyve her I2d. to goe hir way," and 
make hym no more troble. — ^The said Robert is lykened to be 
the father of the said child, and that she was never in name 
with any other man. Signum + Roberti CijErke. 

CCCXX. — ^Tithes in the Parish op Whitburnb. 

[D. f. ] 
■1 
The personal answer of Robert Chambre, taken 3 Dec. 

1575, to the Libel of Mr. Leonard Pilkinton, S.T.P. Rector of 
Whitbarne, in a cause of the tithe of a wind mill. 

He saith that, for the said 9 yeres libellat, this deponent can 
not depose certainlye how moch wheit, maseljon, malt, and 
optbshe,this examinate, or his assignes, have had and receyved 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 305 

quarterly^ as is articulate, in every one of the said yeres ; but to 
this deponent's remembranc and upon his conscienc he saith 
that in every one of the said yeres libellat this deponent haith 
receyved quarterly, as moulter come of the said Whitbome 
myhie, fyve bushells of malt or ther about, and once in every 
one of the said yeres about 2 pecks of grots, which groots were 
commonlye paid and delyvered to this examinat or his assignes 
bytwixtMartlemesand Witsonday,and noo oots otherwaies at all. 

He saith, that in the yere libellat this deponent had no 
behyves of his owne, that did or haith renewed, as is articulat, 
the yer libellat. Marye, he saithe his lait father, John Chamber 
deceased, had this last sommer in his lyfe tyme fyve bee 
hyves, cauld wynter steills onlye, and no mo ; of the which 
ther came and renewed bifor Lammes last past, as is articulate, 
onelye fyve swarmes, and no moo ; for the which hives and 
swarmes this deponent, being only executor of his said father's 
last will aiid testament, haith bein, and yett y s, willing to pay 
for the same according to the custume of the said parishe. 

He belivith that a bushell of wheyt in every one of the yeres 
libellat, one with another, was worth Bs. 4d. a yere or ther about, 
and not above, to this examinate's knowledge or remembranc; 
and a bushell of masseljen lykewaies in every of the said yeres 
libellat 29. and no more ; for this examinate within theis 9 yere 
have sold masseljon come, being most part benes, for 4d. a 
peck; and, as aforesaid, one yere with another, a bushell of 
mulcter malt not of valew more then 28, 6d. a bushell ; and 
sheilds oots as abovesaid no better then 28, 8d. the bushell ; 
and a swarme of bees the yere libellat worthe 20d., and no 
better ; for this examinate wyf did, about the last day in harvest 
last, drown 2 of the said swarmes of his lait said father's, which 
renewed this present yere ; in the which 2 swarmes this exami* 
nate said wyf had only scanty one gallon of hunny. + 



CCCXXL An Affray in the Churchyard of Wolsinq- 

HAM. [D. fol. 95.] 

. The personal answer of Reginald Stowtb, of Wolsingham 



306 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHBR 

yoman^ alias bailman, aged about 30 years, to articles ex officio 
against him. 

He belivith that he, this examinate, aboat the day and tyme 
articulate^ was in the church yarde, wher ther was also the said 
Christopher Lawson. 

He saith, that the tyme articulate the said Christopher 
Lawson was beting one William Simpson yerye unreasonable, 
being a boy of 14 yeres of aidge, and nonne of the said Chris- 
topher scoUers, but servaunt to Christopher Whitfeild^ of Wol- 
singham, and was commyng after this deponent to labour with 
the examinate at the bail kept at Fawleise. And this deponent, 
seing the said boy under feit^ and the said Christopher setting 
one of his knes in great greif upon the said boies faic, so that 
his faise blede^ this deponent toke the aforesaid Christopher of 
the said boye, and sayd^ ^^ Fye upon the^ Lawson^ doith thou 
evon thy wyll with a childe ? *' And after this examinat had 
sondered them 2, and was going to tell the matter to Mr. 
Karleton^ the baliff, the said Christopher then fell to the said 
boy again^ and said that he^ the said boy, shuld fair the worse 
for this examinate's cause. Then therupon this deponent^ being 
in greiff therat, that the said boy shuld be the worse used for 
his cause, he, this deponent, maid agen towerd the said Lawson ; 
whichj seinge this examinate, arose off the said boy^ and then 
Lance Herrison and John Grawng rane bitwixt the said 
Lawson and this examinate, and toke and helde this deponent 
by the coUer ; and so the matter endyd bytwixt this examinate 
and Lawson. 

Examined what out ragious wordes he, this examinate, 
spoke, or cauld the said Lawson at that tyme^ he saith he cauld 
hym " Mongreill Scott, wilt thou kill the childe for ought that 
may be?** To whome the said Lawson at that tyme gave no 
words to this examinate. Examined whither he, this examinate, 
djd drawe his dager and cast or offer to cast the same at the 
said Lawson^ or noo^ he saith upon his ooth that he drew his 
dagger for saif gard of hymself and no other intent^ nor dyd 
not strike nor cast the same, as is articulate. 

Signum + Rbginaldi Stowte. 

The personal answer of Christopher Lawson, of Wolsing- 



ECCLESIASTICAL PBOCBEDINOS. B07 

ham, yoman^ alias scole m', aged 26 years, to articles against 
him. 

He dyd nott braule nor chyde, or use unlawful or unseming 
wordes in the church yarde to the said Stowte, nor to any 
other person then ther, nor layde any violent hand of the said 
Stowte or any other. Mary, the said Stowte dyd mysuse this 
deponent, and held this examinat, unto one William Sympson, 
an evill young fellow of thaidge of 18 yere, slonge stones at 
this deponent and his scolers ; and the said Stowte cauld this 
deponent ^^ ScotV and offerd to hurle his dagger at this exa- 
minate and his scolers ; and so had doon had not Lancelot 
Herrison and John Agraunge taken holde of the said dager.. 

Chrystopher Lawsgn. 



CCCXXIL Neglect gf Churchwardens to provide 

Church Books. [D. f. 114.] 

The personal answer of Thomas March^ of Muggleswick, 
aged 40 years, to articles against him. 

The parishioners of every parish in this diocese ought to 
provide and fynd the church bookes articulate. 

He saith that the churchwardens articulate aught to provide 
for the church books at the coosts of the hole parish. 

He saith that he, this examinate, being one of the church- 
wardens articulate, haith had and provydyd one Bible, sence 
Mydlent laste, and one of the tomes of the Homilies for the 
church articulat; saing the curat ther doith and haith don 
divine servic senc according to the Quene's Majesties lawes as 
other curat doith in other parishes. 

Signum + dicti Thomas March. 

Cuthbert Warde, of Muggleswik, yoman, alias husband- 
man, aged about 40 years. 

He saith that he, this exatninate, and his fellow Wright {so) 
haith providyd an other Bible, so that the minister haith had 2 
senc Mydlent, for that the old Bible lacked some leaves ; and 
one of the bokes of th^Omylies articulate the curate haith ; and 
a cessment is maid to provid for an other, and haith spoken to 

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308 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHBR 

Richerd Johnson to by one at Torke, snch as they lacke; 
saing that the lait parson, Nicoles Sapoott, put away all ther 
boks, Mr. Jowell bokes, ther Bible, and many of ther bokes, 
and also ther communion cupe« 

Signum + Cuthbbbti Wards* 



CCCXXIII. Thb pbbsonal answbb of Robert Aire of 

WhITBABNE, in Q0ADAM CAUSA INCESTUS. [D. f. 111.} 

RoBEBT Aire of Whitbame, aged about 40 years. 

He saith that he was slandered to bare had kamall knowledge 
with the said Maigarett Nicholson ; but upon his othe, which he 
haith taken in the courte, he never knew her camallie. 

He saith that after he was commaunded to bringe in his com- 
purgatores, he omytted so to do; whereupon he was declared 
gyltie of the fault, and was apoynted to do his penance, as he 
did, in the markett place of Durham and the church of Whit- 
bame. 

He saith that true it is that he is maried to Jayne Nicholson, 
articulat, naturall and lawfuU sistere to the said Margaret 
Nicholson, the bannes of matrymonie being thrise asked at 
Whitbame churche ; and because Mr. Leonard Pilkington, par- 
son of Whitbame, wold not suffer them to be maried at Whit- 
bame without a testimonial! firome the judge of this court, after 
that this examinate had taken advioe with one Fisher, the curat 
of Whitbame, who promysed for 5«., which this respondent 
delyvered unto him, to marye him at Tynmouth, went to Tyne- 
mouth with the said Fisher, William Rookesbie, Anthonie John- 
son, Robert Wrighte,&ThomasOxnett of Whitbame, where they 
were maried by one S^ Anthonie, curat there, upon the thurs- 
daie before Faisteneven last, at 9 of the clocke before noyne the 
same^daie ; and he was not asked in the churche of Tynemouth, 
because he was none of that parishe. 

Signum + Roberti Aire. 

Robert Wright of Whitbam, husbandman, aged 32 years. 

He saith the said Robert Ayer was sityd to appear bifore 
Mr. Archdeacon, and was appointyd to do penanc ; and that 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCBBDINGS. 309 

Mrs. Grace Hlldnton deceased was a mean to Mr. Archdeacon^ 
articulate^ to be good to hym ; so that this deponent cannott 
nowe of his ooth say whether he^ the said Robert, dyd penanc 
or no ; but he beliveth that the said Mrs. Pilkinton gatt hym 
excused frome the paper the said Robert shuld have had upon 
hymj the tyme of his pennance's dooinge ; s^ng that he, this 
deponent, was not in the court byfor Mr. Archdeacon at any 
tyme with the said Robert ; but he saith, upon his othe, the 
matter was so manifest and known to neighbours that the said 
Robert culde not cleir hym self therof, nor any his neighbours 
wold goo with hym to take ooth in that matter. 

He, this examinate, remembrith that, the thursday byfore 
Fastyn^s evon last past, the said Robert came to this examinate 
in that morning, this deponent being then in his bedd, and 
requierd him to goo over the wayter to Tynmouth with the said 
Robert to eat a hen ; and this examinate, having certain pease 
to sawe, promised to follow and be with the said Robert ; and 
so this examinate dyd, not thinkinge or knowing of any mariadge 
unto he sawe the said Jane ther. And this examinate went to 
Tynmouth church with the said Robert and Jane, and the curat 
Henry Fisher, William Rowsbye, and other his contests ; and 
the said Henry maried the said Robert and Jane in the mydds 
of Tynmouth church to he came to the wordes, " Who givith 
this woman ?'' And then the said Fisher said to the curat of 
Tynmouth, *^ S', Anthony, take ye now the boke, for I will not 
take your office frome you.'' And so the said Anthony, the 
curat of Tynemoiith, dyd, and maried furth the said Robert and 
Jane. Examined whither the said Robert and Jane was asked 
in ther own parish church of Whitbam or no, he saith they were 
asked and cancauld* by Thomas Aier, the said Robert's brother. 

Anthony Johnson of Whitbame, husbandman, aged 34 
yeres. 

This examinate remembrith that the said Roben dyd pen- 
nance in his lyning clothes in Whitbam church, for that this 
examinate dyd se hym at that tyme ; but whither yt was con- 
cerning Margaret Nicolson, articulate, or for an other poore 
woman cauld Allison Toman, that he had a childe with, he 
cannott depose. + 

* ffaineauldf in another Deposition. 



310 OBP081T10N8 AND OTHBR 



CCCXXIV. The personal answers of Wiliam Psthb 

TO THE LIBELS OF MaRIONE RaISB AND GrACB 6aR,RT9 
IN CAUSA MATRIMONIALI. [D. f. 128.] 

William Pethie, of Langley near Durham^ miller^ aged 
27 years. 

About 9 yere agoo this examinate and the said Marian was 
servaunts togither in houshold with one William Bainbrig of 
Osworth ; saing they 2 brake first ther myndes to gither in the 
way of mariadge at Langley, above said, being also bothe 
servaunts ther to the said William. 

He saith that half a yere after they 2 had talked to gither 
of mariadg, as is articulate, this examinate had occasion to bring 
fatt sheip frome Langley to the said Osworth, where his said 
m>^. then dwelt, and the said Marian also, as a woman servant 
ther, about mydsomer in the said 9th yere, to his remembranc ; 
for his said m^*. flittyd that yere, about St Elynmas then next 
byfore, to the said Osworth, and the sheip was to serve hym 
and gett in his harvest. At which tyme when this examinate 
and 2 maids that had commed with hym hadd put up the sheip 
which they hadd brought, they all came to gither into the balle 
house of Osworth aforesaid ; and one Janet Taylier, servant to 
Williamson, the said William Bunbridge hynde, happened to talke 
[with] this deponent and others ther present that Marian Rayc 
and one George More shulde be in favour togyther. Wher- 
upon this examinate, when the maidens was goon out of the 
house, fell in talke with the said Marian of ther former favour 
and frendship; and at the length they 2 maid promise yche to 
other, this examinate saing to the said Marion, ^^ Here I, William^ 
doo gyve you, Marian, my hand and my faith and treweth, that 
I will never marye other woman but you/^ To whom the said 
Marian answerd, ^^ Willy, here I gyve you my troweth and faith 
and my hand that I will never marye other man but you/' 
And he saith further that ther was no body bye, but this depo-* 
nent and the said Marian alone. 

He saith that at the Michaelmas next after the making of the 
said contracte, to this deponent remembranc, the said Marion 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. SIX 

went into Teisdaill forrest; and fynding hir mother dead^ at 
hir return asked this examinat yf he were the same man he was 
at the tyme of ther 2 talk at Osworth^ for hir father was mynded 
to have hir come home to kepe his house ; at which tyme the 
said William and Marian acknowledged th'one to the other that 
they were handfast to gyther, in the presenc of Janet Taylyer 
aforesaid and one Agnes Stevenson. And about 2 yeres after 
that^ when the said Marion dwelt with Mr. Stevenson at Ryllye^ 
they 2 confeste the same contracte throne to th^other^ in the 
presence of one Richerd Palliser. And as for any gyfts ther 
was noon ayther gyven or taken betwixt them. 

He saith that he, this examinate^ thought at the tyme of the 
contract making abovesaid^ and senc, that he^ this deponent^ 
and the said Marion were man and wyfe byfore God. 

Signum + dicti W. Pethib. 
The personal answer of the said William Pbthie to the 
libel of Grace Garry. 

He saith that ther was dyvers tymes talk and communicacion 
bitwixt this examinate and the said Grace, as is articulate^ 
about 4 yere agoo, in the hinder ende of sommer; as well in 
the said Langly myln as also in the said Grace's father houese, 
cauld Bornewold house. And that after one quarter of a yere 
next following, being in harvest tyme, they 2 mett to gyther 
upon a Sonday at after noon in the Borne Wood ; to whom 
this examinate said, ^^ Here, Grace, I gyve you my hand and 
my faith and my trewth, that I woU marye you and take you 
to my wyfe f' and she, the said Grace, answering this examinate^ 
and said, " Here, I, Grace, gyve you, William, my hande and 
my faith and my treweth, that I will never have other man but 
you f saing that ther was no tokens gyven or recejrved bitwixt 
them. 

He saith that the said Grace gave this examinat a whistell 
and a hartt of silver, but he gave the said Grace no token at 
all; saing that he haith begotten of hir one childe, that is 
dead, and another childe wherwith she, the said Grace, is with 
at this tyme ; and the first child was born about this tyme 2 
yere. 

He saith that he never asked hir said father's good will nor 



812 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHER 

hir mother's ; but at this last Michaelmas this examinate pro- 
mised the said Cuthbert and his wyfe^ the said Grace's father 
and mother^ that he wold marye the said Grace^ ther dowghter, 
so that he might be shutt of the promises he hadd maid to one 
Raic, bis M^. lait setrant, of Langley. 

Signum + died Willislhi Pethie. 



CCCXXV. Phocebdings against Edwabd Johnson^ in 
CAUSA coBBECTiONis. 1 Feb. 1576\ [D. f. 146.] 

Thomas Colson^ of Stranton> aged about 54 years. 

He saith that this examinate knoweth^ as all his neighbours 
doe^ that the said Johnson is generally suspected to lyve in 
whoredome with the said Jennet Slaiter; and that he haithe 
kept hir> and doethe kepe her stilly as his leman; for that she 
Cometh every weeke once or twise to him to the milne at 
the least. And this examinat further saythe that he harde 
the said Johnson confesse and say that he had committed 
adultery with the said Jane Slaiter^ and that he wold never 
refuse hir as longe as the brethe was in him; and that she 
shoulde never come in the lawe so longe as he had one grote to 
spende. And this examinat tolde him that the neighbours wold 
put hir out of the parishe^ and Johnson aunswered that he wold 
place hir. And she^ beinge so put out of the parishe^ was placed 
by him in his owne howse and hir goods, and kept hir ther till 
she was dted; and sence she resortethe to him^ as is aforesaid. 
And the said Johnson said to this examinate that he had rather 
that any man shoidde gape his owne wif then kysse Jane 
Slaiter mowthe. + 

John Casson, of Stranton^ yeoman^ aged about 52 years. 

He saith that he harde the said Johnson saye that he had 
committed whoredom with Janet Slaiter; and, further, said that 
if there were a hundrethe harnessed men set betwixt him and hir^ 
with drawen swerds in ther hands^ that he wold run throughe 
them all to hir ; and that^ if ther were a hundrethe devels of 
hell betwixt him and hir, with fleshe croks in ther hands^ that 
he wold run throughe them all to hir ; then being present John 



ECCLB8IASTICAL PBOCBBDINQ8. 313 

Jackson. Saing farther that he was present with the vicar of 
Stranton when he rebuked him for suche his evel demeanour : 
Johnson annswered that he hoped that he that was an evill man 
wold never amend. John Casson. 



CCCXXYL Kathebinb Anderson against Janbt Wil- 
kinson, IN A CAUSE of defamation. 18 Jan. 1574. 

[E. f. .] 

Margaret Shafto, of Throkdey, aged 20 years. 

She, this examinate, about sex weekes sence, she beinge in the 
garth of Thomas Anderson, father to the saide Katherine, did 
heare the said Janet Wilkinson call the said Katheryne '^ bange 
lipped witche/' Signum + MARGARSTiE Shafto. 

Janet Hastings, of Throkley. — She, this examinate, did 
heare the said Janet Wilkinson call Katheryne Anderson 
^^ darted witche,'' and that ^^ she had comen of Heddon on 
the Wall for hir good deedes doinge.'^ 



CCCXXVIL The will of Thomas Browne. [E. f. 1.] 

Robert Bitleston, of Newcastle^ cowper, aged about 53 
years. 

He saith, upon his ooth, that, being next neibore to the said 
Thomas Browne, by the spaic of 20 yeres and more, about 
Michaelmas was a twelmonth, the said Thomas was visytyd 
with the plage and died ; and the said Barbary, his wyfe, was 
then newly brought in bedd, and had the plag also ; for this 
examinate at that tyme sent for wyne thither to drink, and other 
drink culd not be gotten, and . . « had knowled of the pre- 
mises and of the making of the said Barbary ... of the £80 
hir lait husband had left him. He willed a poore woman shuld 
have certain pewder vessel that lay to the said Barbara in pawn, 
yf he cold pay toward the lowsing of them ; and that 2 peices 
of gold was then named to 6. Brigs and his wyfe, whereoff one 



314 DBPOSmONS AND OTHER 

of them was an old riall ; and hir best belt was given to hir 
Buster, bat what suster this ezaminate cannott depose. + 



CCCXXVIII. Edward Toungbr contra Stbphbn Ni- 

COLSAN, IN CAUSA DBFAHATIONIS. [E. f. 7 b.] 

Nicholas Wood of Grallogait, in the suburb of Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne, labourer, aged about 40 years. 

He saith that, about Symon day and Jude last past, beinge 
in this examinate's dwellinge, within the house of the said Nicol- 
son, hard the said Steven, standing also in the streit, cauld 
Gallogait, said openly that ther was fjye geis eaten in the said 
Younger house all upon one day, and that the said Edward 
doore was spaired all the tyme the said geis was in eatyng. 
Examined whither the said Nicolson said tiiat the said fyve 
geis, or any of them, were stoln, or untrewly become, ye or 
noo, he saith therto he canott depose, for he hard no such 
words, nor no more of the matter. 

Signum + Nicholai Wood. 

Agnes Barley, widow, late wife of Richard B, of New- 
castle, collier, aged 67 years. 

She saith that, about 14th day ago, this examinate fortuned 
to comme by the said Steven dore, wher he, the said Stephen, 
was standing, and said that he wold vowe that the said Edward 
dyd eat fyve stoln geis all upon one day in his house, and kept 
his door spaired at tyme they were in eatinge. 



CCCXXIX. Margaret Key* against Katherine Whit- 

TINGHAM,t IN CAUSA DEFAMATIONIS. 13 Dec. 1583. 

[E. f. 124 b.] 

Oerman Oardiner, of the city of Durham, clerk, aged 
about 43 years. 

* Wife of Francis Key, master of the Grammar School. 

f Widow of William Whittingham, Dean of Durham, and uster of John Calvin. 



£C0LEBIA8TICAL PROCBEDINOS. 315 

He saith tbat^ on a holiday after evening prayer, aboat 
Michaelmas last, the said Francis Key, husband to the said 
Margarett, desired this examinate and Sir Thomas Little, clerk, 
his contest, to goe with him to Mrs. Katherine Whittingham 
aforesaid, hir house; which, at his request, they both did. And 
there, in the courting of the said house, the said Francis Key 
and Mrs. Whittingham did talke togither, while this examinate 
and the said Thomas Little stode at the doore ; and, after a 
little space, the said Francis called on this examinate and the 
said Thomas Little, willing them to comme in, which they 
did ; whom when Mrs. Whittingham did see, she said to the 
said Frauncis, " Doe ye bring witnesses with you ? then doe 
what you can, doe what ye darre. I said, ^ I hard so ; but I doe 
not saie it is trew.' Doe ye comme more to me then to others ?*^ 
And she willed him to goe to other persons, whose names this 
examinate, withdrawing himselfe as sorie to heare such speaches, 
could not well heare, nether doth remembre ; but she ended 
with these speaches, ^^ Aske of the boies of the gramer schole ; 
and sew me at Yorke, sew me at London, I will answeare 
you.^^ 

Ad interrog. He saith that the speaches of the said Kathe- 
rine, by this examinate so deposed, were urged by the said 
Francis Key, as he haith predeposed ; and he saith that at the 
sight of this examinate, and the said Thomas Little, the said 
Katherine semed to be moved and verie angrie. 

He saith that Francis Key, husband to the said Margaret, 
did request this examinat to come to court and be a witness in 
this cause, and said he would give him his chardges ; but this 
examinate refused to come, saying he would be no hyreling. 
Whereupon Oeorg Smurthwate this day came, in Mr. Colmore 
his name, and commanded him to come to Mr. Colmore ; which 
he did, into court, where the said Mr. Colmore, at request of 
Cuthbert Nicholl, did sweare this deponent to depose in this 
cause. Per me, German um Gardiner, clericum. 

Thomas Little, of the city of Durham, clerk, aged about 
36 years, ut supra. 

Ad inJterrog. The said Katherine seemed to be sum what 
angrie, and was moved thereto by the said Mr. Key ; but he 



316 DSP08ITION8 AND OTHBR 

verilie thinketh that she did not speake any wordes of purpose 
to defame her, the said Margrett Key. Refused to appear, 
11/ 9upra. Per me, Thomam Littlb, clericimu 

31 Jan. 1588,9. Anns Ewbankb, of the city of Durham, 
aged about 23 years. 

She saith that, about Michaelbnas last past, the said 
Margaret Key and Katherine Whittingham, beinge together in 
Mr. Deane*s garden in Durham, this ezaminate and Mrs. Anne 
Hethe, and others, being present; and, emongest other talk and 
speches, the said Margarett Key said unto the said Katherine 
Whittingham, that she hadd to speak with hir, whereupon she 
said these words : ^ Mrs. Whittingham, you have reported that 
I have had a child before I was maried. I trust you will 
bringe forth the father for yt.^' The said Mrs. Whitting- 
ham maid aunswer, ^^ I doe not saie that you hadd anie 
child before you were maried; but I saie that I have 
herd that you had a child before you wer maried, but I 
will not saie that it is trew. Doe your worst, 1 will not 
flie the countrie.^' Whereupon the said Margaret Key said, 
^I defie you, and all that can so saie.'' Then Mrs. Whittingham 
said, ^ Doe you not know one Maddock ?'' Tes, that I doe,'' said 
the said Maigarett; '^and that I may rew, for he shold have 
ben myn husbande. I dwelt with him, but I did never know 
any dishonestie with him.'' 

CCCXXX. Lbonabd Harle against Agnbs Ripley, alias 
Brown, widow, and Administratrix of the goods of\ 
Robert Riplbt, late of Newcastle, her husband. 

[E.f. 118 b.] 

Leonard Diggles * of Gateshed, aged about 38 years. 

He saith that, about fower or fyve daies before the said 
Robert Rypley died, this examinate, beinge commed to see 
him, did heare the said Agnes saie to him, ^^ Bullie, thow hast 
geven thy silver whistle and chaine unto Leonard Harle, but 

« A GommiaBioner under the Grown in 1586| to survey and report upon certain 
lands in Northumberland. 



BCGLBSIASTIdAL PROCBEDINOS. 317 

I trust thou shalt lyre to weare yt thy self ;" whereunto the 
said Robert did not reply or gain say^ being at that tyme verie 
sicke. 

He saith that the whistle^ which the said Robert Ryplie did 
usuallie weare^ was worth 5^ 10s. or there about^ as this ex- 
aminate thinketh. Per me, Leonard Diggles. 

John Armirbb of Newcastle^ marinar^ aged about 30 years. 

He saith that^ about 4 or 5 daies before the said Robert died, 
this examinat did goe to his howse, beinge accompanied with 
Alan Gibson, Robert Ashe, Leonard Harle articulate, Robert 
Chicken, Thomas Blirthome, and others, and, beinge corned to 
his said howse, the said Leonard Harle did goe into the howse 
first of that companie, and beinge there in the hall howse^ 
where the said Robert lay sick in his bedd, the said Agnes 
Ripley said to Leonard Harle, ** You ar welcom/* *^ I thank 
you," said Leonard, ^^and shall see that by your gyfts. 
" Whie," said she, ^* my husband hath geven you somewhat. 
"What,'^ said Leonard Harle, '^hath he given me?'* Then 
she said he hath given you his whissell and his chaine. And 
afterward the said Leonard, goinge to his bedd wher he laye, 
asked him how he did^ calling him mate. He aunswered^ 
" I thanke you moch/' Then said the said Robert Ryplie, 
^^ I have geven you a gyft, that is, my whistle and chaine, 
which I weare by sea."' He gave him thanks and said he 
trusted to se him lyve and weare yt himself. But the said 
Robert maid aunswere that he thought he coidd not lyve, by 
reason of his sicknes. 

He saith that the said Agnes was present when her hus- 
band Robert Ripley did geve the chaine and whistle unto the 
said Leonard, and did heare him speake the said words. 

He verilie thinketh that the said whistle and chaine was well 
worth 6/. 13^. 4d. or thereabout. John Armbrer. 



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SIS DBP08ITI0NS AND OTHER 



CCCXXXI. Isabel Chamber against John Robson in 
CAUSA DBFAMATiONis. 15 July^ 1586. [E. f. 47J 

John Morpeth of Blaidon^ in the parish of Ryton^ yeoman, 
aged about 46 years. 

He saith that^ on Sondaie last was a moneth^ this examinate^ 
being in the company of Arthure Bell^ John Robson^ John Bell, 
W™. Morpeth, and others, comeing from the Tyne water, 
besyde Blaidon, did heare the said Arthure Bell and John 
Robson chiding ; and, emongest other words, the said John 
Robson said to the said Arthure, ^^ Thou haist a witch to thy 
eldmother ; and why cannot the young theef leame at the old ?'' 

He saith that Arthure Bell did mary and take to wife Isabel!, 
the daughter of the said William and Isabell Chamber articu- 
late. Signum + Johannis Morpethe. 

William Morpeth of Blaidon, aged about 33 years. 

" Thou haiest a witch to thy eldmother, and I will prove hir 
a witche ; and why may not the young theefe leame at the 
old V + 

Arthur Bell of Blaidon, laborer, aged 28 years. 

" Thou haist a witch to thy eldmother, and she haith learned 
the young theef even so.'' H- 



CCCXXXII. The Will op Giles Storie op New- 
castle, 16 July 1586. [E. f. ] 

David Dods of Newcastle, laborer, aged about 50 years. 

He saith that, about Michaelmas last past, this examinate, 
being with Oiles Storie in one after noone, about one of the 
cloake, in his owne house in Newcastle, togither with Luke 
Bradforth and divers others, did se the said Giles verie sicke, 
yet spoke he wholey, and was of perfitt memorie ; and, then 
and there, the isaid Elizabeth beinge wepeing, the said Luke 
did aske him, the said Giles, how he did : he answeared, ^^ Sore 
sicke ; but I hope to God to overputt it." And then the said 



ECCLESIASTICAL PBOCBBDINOS. 319 

Luke did aske him what he did to his wife there, that did 
mume so ? He answered, " What shall I say to hir, man ? I give 
hir this house, so longe as she ly veth ; and it and all that ever 
I have to come to George Storie after hir decease/' Then the 
said Luke said, " Ye have an other sonne: what doe ye to him ?" 
He answered, '^ God's malison light on him, for he haith 
beggered me, and would not follow my councell: I shall rive 
him out of the earth that ever giveth him one grote of my 
geare." And streightway this examinate departed from thence ; 
and within an howre after, the said Giles dyed. 

Signum + Davidis Dods. 

Luke Bradfortu of Newcastle, glover, aged about 50 years. 

He saith that, about Michaelmas last, in one afternoone, this 
examinate did goe into Giles Storie his house to see how he 
did, and there found him sicke by the fyerside, and streightway 
after he went to bed ; and there, in the presence of David Dod 
and others, this examinate askeing him if he were of perfitt re- 
membrance, he said he bad as good remembrance as the first 
howre he was borne. And afterward, emongst other words, this 
examinate bad him doe well to his wife and child ; and he said 
" I leve them all I have ;'^ and his wife, speakeing of }9£ which 
she brought with hir, he said, " I give the this house for thy 
life, and that is better ; and after thy death I give it hir sonne 
George Storie :" and streightway this examinate departed thence, 
and within one howre after, the said Giles dyed. 

Signum + Luc^ Bradforth. 

Thomas Rand of Newcastle, weiver, aged about 26 years. 

He saith that, about Michaelmas last^ on Satterday next 
before the said daie whereon the said Giles dyed, this examinate, 
being then constable in the streat where the said Giles dwelt, 
and goeing about the streat, did command the said Giles to 
shutt his doore up, for feare of the plague. The said Giles 
answered that their was no doubt of that siknes, and desired 
this examinate to come in to him, which he did ; and there this 
examinate and the said Giles, talking of Raph Story, the said 
Giles his sonne, the said Giles did bid bang him, he shuld never 
have any that was his ; ^^ but all the lands and goods I have. 
Fie give to my sonne Georg Storie.*' 

Signum + Tho. Rand. 



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CCCXXXIII. Elizabeth Dobson against Janbt Pbbb- 

80N IN CAD8A DBFAMATIONIS^ 29 Jui*. 1586. [£• f. 54.] 

William Jackson, of Whickham, laborer, aged about 50 
years. 

About Whitsondaye bist this examinate, being at his work at 
a ooole pitt in Dunston, nigb Whickham, did see the said 
Janet comeing towards him ; whereupon she, beinge nigh him, 
he called hir to him, and asked hir where she had bene. She 
answered and said, '^ I would Ood that eyther you or any 
honest man had been with me, where I have bene/^ This 
examinate answered, '^ Why, where have you bene ?" She said, 
'^ I have bene yonder in the lighes, and there I cam by a whinne 
bushe, and I found Dobson^s maiden standing, and a flacket 
standing besid hir ; and so sone as she saw me, she smiled and 
lewgh at me ; and a little peece beyond was my good man and 
Dobson's wife standeing togither, and hard by was my good 
man's horse fest at a whinne roote by the bridle reine ; and I 
went to the horse, and my good -man toke the horse from 
me/' + 



CCCXXXIY. Thb will of Lancelot Morgan, of 
WoLSiNGHAM, 24 Sbp. 1586. [E. f. 59b.] 

George Walker, of the parish of Wolsingham, weiver, 
aged about 40 years. 

He saith that, about five weeks since, on a tewsday, the said 
Lancelott Morgan did cause his wife Margarett to call on this 
examinate, goeing in the streat before his doore, to come to 
him, which he, this examinate, did ; and then the said Lancelot 
had sent for Roger Colson and James Nattress, his contests, 
who came to him then accordingly ; and then and there the said 
testator, in his hall house at Wolsingham, did say to them all, 
^' Neighbours, here is neither minister nor clerk at home, and 
I would make my will ; and I pray you to beare witness how I 
dispose my goods/' And then he gave the one half of his 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINOS. 321 

goods, moveable and unmoveable^ to Margaret his wif» and 
John Bainbridg hir sonne, and the other half thereof he gave 
to Thomas Bainbridg and Lancelot Bainbridg, sonne to the 
said Thomas; and putt the said Thomas Bainbridg in full 
authority to pay his debts and bestow of his forthbringing, 
even as he would he should have done for him« — He saith that 
he and the said Margarett be cosen germaines. + 

Roger Colson, of Wolsingham, yeoman, aged 40 years. 

He said that God had visited him, and that he was willing 
to make his will. — He bad Thomas Bainbridge bury him in his 
owne stall in the church, and pay for it Ss. Ad. + 



CCCXXXY. Margery Anderson against William 
Paicb, in causa dbfamationis. 20 Jan. 1586. [E. •] 

William Wilkinson of Bradley Hall, in the parish of 
Rytoii, yoman, aged about 46 years. 

He saith that, at the fare tjrme at Newcastle, about S^ Luke 
day last, this examinate, being on the Sand Hill in Newcastle, 
byeing cloth there, did borow a yerdwand of the said Margery 
Anderson hir servant, wherewith he, being redy to measure 
doth, William Paice came to this examinate and willed him 
lett him se the yerdwand, which he did, and the said Paice 
measured it with his arme, and said that the yerdwand was 
not a lawfull yerdwand \ whereupon he would have caried this 
examinate to Mr. Maior there, and, after some speaches betwixt 
this examinate and him, the said Margery Anderson came and 
demaunded the yerdwand, and aske why he melt so with it : he, 
the said Paice, said it was not a lawfull yerdwand. She asked 
him what authority he had to take hir yerdwand and find fait 
therewith more then all others thereby ? and so they, multi- 
plying words, emongest other words the said Paice called the 
said Margery " noughty, proude whore ;" whereupon the said 
Margery toke witnesses. 

Wylliam Wylkenson. 



S22 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHBB 

CCCXXXVL — ISABBLL ROTHWBLL, WIPB OP RiCHARD 

rothwell, op thb citt op durham^ against gsorge 
Smith^ in causa dbpamationis. 1 Apr. 1587* [£• •] 

Anns Walton, of Wannouth, spinster, aged about 30 
years. 

She saith that, a little before Christenmas, comeing up the 
streat by George Smith his shopp, in the company of the said 
Isabell, Lawrence Thompson and Jenet Dickeson, the said 
Smith said unto Lawrence Thompson, ^^ Will you presume to 
goe in a ladie's companie ?'' Whereupon the said Isabell made 
aunswer, " I may as tite be a ladye as thou a lord, as thou, 
pricklouse that thou arte.'' Wherunto the said George 
made aunswere, '^Thou art a tantarband and a tantarbawde 
whore.*' 

CCCXXXVII. — ^Thb marriage op Sir Thomas Gray op 
Chillingham with the Lady Catharine Neville.'*' 

[E. .] 

ExAMiNACio testium inferius nominatorum capta fuit coram 
venerabili viro Magistro Clemente Colemore, legum doctore, 
&c., officiali, in presencia mei Thomee King, notarii publici, 22 
die mensis Aprilis, a.d. 1587. 

Arthurus Graie, de Chillingham, Dunelm. Dioc, gene- 
rosus, eetatis suee circiter xxv. ann., testis super positionibus et 
articulis materiee per partem venerabilis viri domini Thomae 
Gray militis, et Katherinae dominee Nevell, alias Graie, ejus 
uxoris, contra Johannem Roddham, officium domini judicis 
promoventem, exhibitis, productus — ^novit ^undem dominum 
Thomam Gray ab infantia ipsius deponentis, et dictam dominam 
Katherinam per tres annos. 

He saith that this examinate haith divers tymes, before the 
solemnizacion of the marriag, publiqely done in the manor or 
place of Battersby, in Yorkshire, betwixt the said S**. Thomas' 
Gray and Katherine Ladie Nevell, now his wife, hard the said 

• See North Durham, p. 829. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. S23 

Six Thomas uid Lady Katherine, with others their frends, con-^ 
ferre of matrimonie to be had betwixt them two ; and, namely, 
about halfe a yere before the said solemnization, the said S'. 
Thomas Gray and Katherine Ladie Neavell, now Ladie Gray, 
did in a gallerie, within the said manor or place of Battersby, 
in the presence of Roger Graie and this examinate, and Mr. 
Christofer Vavisour, Mrs. Breerton, and Mrs. Marie Thwaites 
two of my Ladie Constable hir gentlewomen, contract them- 
selves togither in lawfull matrimonye ; and the said S»". Thomas 
toke the said Ladie Katherine to his wife, and she likewise toke 
him to hir husband. 

He saith that this examinate was present in a chamber 
within the manor, castle, place, or house, called Battersbey, 
articulate, the 7*^ day of November, in the yere of our Lord 
God one thowsand fyve hundreth fowerscore and fyve, betwixt 
the houres of six and nyne of the clock in the fore noone that 
day, and there did see S^ Thomas Middleton, clerke, curat of 
Morpeth, in the county of Northumberland, publiqely and 
openly solemnize matrimonye betwixt the said S^ Thomas 
Graie and Katherin Ladie Nevell, now Lady Gray, according 
and after the order sett downe in the booke of Common Prayer 
articulate ; which boke the said curate had then before him, 
and red the words of mariag forth of the same, and used all 
such ceremonies of the mariadg as is there sett downe ; and the 
said Sir Thomas Grsde and Ladie Katherine did repeete respec* 
tively the words of mariage after the said curate, as becometh, 
the doore of the said chamber being then open, and fre passaig 
for any person to resort thither ; then and ther being present, 
and hearing and seing the premisses, the said Christofer Vavi-* 
sour, gent., this examinate, William Maire, Christofer Ogle, 
one John fSlankJ, servant to my Ladye Constable, and others. 

He saith that, since the sol^tmrizacion of the mariag afore* 
said, the said Sir Thomas Grray and Ladye Katheryne^ now his 
wife, have contynually taken and reputid themselves for man 
and wif togither, yet did they not contjmually since that tyme 
cohabitt togither, for that the said Lady Katherine did remayne 
at London for the most part since the said mariag, untill or 
about SK Andrew daie last ; and the said S*". Thomas Gray 

Y 2 



324 DEPOSITIONS AND OTBEIl 

remained in Northumberland, since which tyme they have con- 
tynually cohabitted and dwelt togither as man and wife, aad 
yet do. 

He verie well knoweth that the said Sir Thomas Gray and 
the said Lady Katherine his wife doe and have, since SK An— 
drew day last or thereabout, nightly laid in one bed, as becom* 
meth man and wife. 

He is the natural brother of the said Sir Thomas Oray. 

" Arthur Gray. 

Thomas Middlbton, clerk, curate of the church of Mor- 
peth, aged about 40 years. 

He saith that he haith known the said Sir Thomas Gray for 
7 years, and the said Katherine Lady Nevell, alias Gray, from 
the 7th of Nov. 1585. 

He saith that this examinate, being requested by Sir Thomas^ 
Gray, did come to the manour or house of Battersbey articu- 
late, on Satterday the 7th of Novembre, in the yere of our 
Lord God one thousand five hundreth fowrescore and fyve, and 
there, at the request of the said Sir Thomas Gray and the said 
Katherine Ladye Nevell, now Ladie Gray, this examinate did, 
in a chambre within the said manour or bouse, betwixt seaven 
and nyne of the clock in the foore noone, on Sonday, the 7tb 
day of Novembre aforesaid, openly and publiquelie solemnizef 
matrimonie betwixt the said Sir Thomas and the said Ladie 
Katherin, accordinge and after the order sett downe in the booke 
of Common Prayer articulate, and used all ceremonies in the 
said manage as is sett downe in the said book of Common 
Prayer, not adding any thing to the same nor diminishing any 
thing or word from the same ; and the said Sir Thomas and Ladie 
Katherine did respectively repeete after this examinate the 
words of mariag as is sett downe in the said book ; immediately 
before which solemnizacion this examinate did aske the said Sir 
Thomas Gray if bannes of matrimony were openly published 
in there parish churches, and he answered, upon his creditt, 
that the same were thrise done openly, both in the church of 
Topclif in Yorkshiere, and in the church of Chillingham in 
Northumberland, during all which tyme any person might have 
commed into the said chamber, then and there being present,x 



fiCCLBSIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS* 325 

Und seeing and hearing the same, Christofer Vavisour^ Arthure 
Gray, Christofer Ogle, William Maire, and others. 

He saith that, about Januarie last, the said Sir Thomas Gray 
and the said Lady Katherine, now his wife, came from London 
into Northumberland, since which tyme this examinate knoweth 
they have contynually cohabited and dwelt together. 

Thomas Mydlbton, Gierke. 
Christopher Ogle, of Chillingham, gent., aged about 
28 years. 

He hath known the said Thomas Gray, knight, for 16 years, 
and the said Katherine Lady NeveU, alias Gray, for 2 years. 

He saith that this examinate, being servant to Sir Thomas 
Gray, articulate, did attend of him at Battersby articulate, the 
tyme articulate; and there on a Sonday morning, viz. the seventh 
day of November, in the yere of our Lord God one thosand 
fyve hundert fower score and fyve, betwixt seven and nyne of 
the clock in the forenoone that day, this examinate was present 
in a chamber, within the said house or manour, and did se Sir 
Thomas Middleton, clerk, this examinate's precontest, at the 
request of the said Sir Thomas Gray, openly and publiquely 
solemnize matrimonie betwixt the said Sir Thomas Gray and the 
said Katherine Ladie NeveU, now Lady Gray, in which solem- 
nization he used the whole forme and order set downe for 
mariag in the booke of Common Prayer articulate, and no 
other ; and the said Sir Thomas Gray and Lady Katherine did, 
respectively, repete the words of mariadg after the said Sir 
Thomas Middleton, as usually persons to be maried doe; 
during which tyme any person whosoever might have had free 
access unto the said chambre, then and there being present 
Christofer Vavisour, Mr. Arthur Gray, Sir Thomas Middleton, 
William Mare, and John Rusher. Christofer Oolle. 

William Maire, of Chillingham, gent., aged about 

55 years. 

He saith that, being then servant to my Lady Constable, he 
was present, &c. William Meyar. 

Matthew Gray, of Chillingham, yeoman, aged about. 

60 years. 

He saith that, being servant to S"^ Thomas Gray, he did 



S26 DBPOSITIONi AND OTHER ' 

attend him at Battersby, the 7th of November articulate^ whicH 
day in the momeing^ about 8 of the clock, this examinate came 
into Mr. Arthure Gray his chamber there, and asked whether 
his said M^ and the said Lady Katherine were maried or no ; 
and the said Arthure told this examinate that they were maried 
immediatly before. Mathewe Gray. 

Edward Stan dl ay, of Chillingham, aged about 32 years. 

He saith that, betwixt Easter and Whitsonday last past gone 
a twelvemonth, upon three severall sonndaies, the bandes of 
matrimony were openlie published within the parish of Chilling- 
ham, betwixt Sir Thomas Gray and Ladie Nevell, alias Graye ; 
and he knoweth the same to be true, for that he, this exami- 
nate, is parishe clerk of the said church, and was present at the 
publishinge of the same by the curate then 

Edward Standlay.' 

James Smalshankes, of Chillingham, aged about 57 years. 

He saith that, betwixt Easter and Whitsondaie last past, 
beinge in the year of our Lord God 1586, the bandes of matri- 
monie weare openlie published by Sir John Graye, curate of 
ChiUingham, betwixt Sir Thomas Graye and the Ladie Nevell, 
alias Graye, upon three severall sundaies, within the said parishe 
church ; and he saith he knoweth yt to be trewe, for that he was 
at church two sundaies, and hard the same so published by the 
curate aforesaid. Sig. Jacobi + Smalshankes. 



CCCXXXVIIL The will of John Wood op Eldon. 

8 May, 1587. [ E. ] 

Ingram Anderson of Eldon, in the parish of Auckland 
S^. Andrew, husbandman, aged about 40 years. 

He saith that, about two houres before John Wood, articu- 
late, made his will, this examinate, beinge in the said John 
Wood his house at Elden, did heare the said John Wood sale 
and speake unto Robert Thompson articulate,' viz., " Robert, 
thou hast bene good to me, and I had divers thinges at thy 
handes ; and if I live, I will be good with thee. I will command 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 327 

my menyei"* (which^ as this examinate thinketh^ he ment his 
wife and children) **that they will be good to the; and if they 
lett the hie closes^ and do not occupie them them selves^ but 
lett them, that thou shall have them before any other^ for fortie 
shillings by yeare/* And likwis, if they his meneyeie^ as 
abovesaid^ do not occupie and keape in ther owne possession 
the Broomehill likwise, that " thou shalt have yt, payinge four 
markes by yeare ; and to have both the groundes duringe my 
yeares in the same, for the rents abovesaid/' 

CCCXXXIX. Agnes Dodds against Cl*embnt Hbwet- 
80N, IN causa matrimoniali^ 19 Jan. 1587. [£• •] 

Allison Browne^ wife of William Browne of Newcastle^ 
aged about 53 years. 

She saith that^ about Easter seven yeres since^ the said 
Clement and Agnes did divers tymes resort to this examinate's 
house^ and^ as i€ semed to this examinate and hir husband, 
they both pretended manage togither. And^ about the tyme 
aforesaid, the said Clement and Agnes, being in the place afore- 
said, talking of mariag to be had betwixt them, the said 
Clement did say, by his trouth, that he would never have other 
woman in middle earth then the said Agnes, and she said she 
wold never have other man but him ; and then he gave hir an 
old grote, and she gave him a napking. 

Signum + Allibone Browne. 

CCCXL. The will op George Tompson op Mbdomsley, 

CLERK* 

Testes producti ex parte Cuthberti Ward et Johannis Back- 
worth super factione testamenti Georgii Tompson, clerici nuper 
de Medomsley, defuncti, 1578. [E. ] 

Thomas Johnson of Medomsley, laboringman and parish 
clerk, aged 64 years. 

* In another deposition, instead of this tenn the word <* lolkes** is used. 



328 DIP08IT10NS AND OTHER 



He saith that, about fyve weiks aenc and upon Sonday, this 
deponent came to visit the said George and asked hym as he dyd; 
to whom he aunswered he was smyttend to dead. And this 
examinate moved hym to make his will, and he said the morrow 
pext after he wold so doo. And this deponent further asked 
the said S', George whome he wold make his executors ; and he 
aunswerd and said, ^^ Cuthbert Ward and John Backworth/' 
Examined what legaces or gyfits he gave to any of his firends or 
neighbours that he had, he saith he hard hym name nothing, 
nor any moore then he had predeposed. 

Roger Hunter of Medomsley, wheilwright, aged 40 years. 

About 3 or 4 of the clock upon Sonday before the said S^. 
George died, this examinate came to hym to se as he dyd ; and 
he said evon as a dead stoke. 

Simon Johnson of Medomsley, weiffer, aged 28 years. 

He, being clarke under Thomas Johnson, his father, came to 
see as he dyd ; which answered this deponent that he was so 
sore sike that he coulde not last, and that he wold make his 
will and gyve his poore suster a part of his goods ; and that he 
wold make Cuthbert Warde and John Bacworth his executors. 
Examined who moo hard theis words, he saith his buttler. 



CCCXLI. The will of Allison Chambers of Black- 
well, 13 Jul. 1588. [E. ] 

Henry Stavbley of Blackwell, in the parish of Darlington, 
laborer, aged about 24 years. 

He saith that, on Fridaie last gone a sevennight, viz. the fift 
of July instant, about one or two of the clock in the afternoone, 
the said Allison Chamber, lying then sicke in John Chamber 
aforesaid his foore house at Blackwell, and being of perfett 
mynde and memorie, did aske for hir said brother John Cham- 
bers ; and the said John his wife answeard that *' he was awaie, 
and could not be gotten/^ Then the said Allison saide, "I feele 
myself not right ; and if he cannot be gott, I pray you all" 
(meaning the witnesses here under named being then present) 
" to beare witness of my will, that their be no comber betwixt 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCBBDINOS. 329 

my bretliren/' And then she said, <' I will that I be honestlie 
brought forth, like an honest man's bame, and be laid besids 
my father; and I'legive to the poore of Dameton parish 20s.; 
and all the rest of my goods I give to my brother John, and I 
make him executour of alL'' And on Satterday momeing then 
next, about son riseing, she dyed; being present, and hearing 
the premises, at the tyme and place aforesaid, Isabell Gule, 
Anne Colson, and the said John Chamber his wife, and this 
examinat — ^The said Allison was discrete and wise in hir 
accions in hir life tyme, and had good discretion to use hir self 
and that was hirs. Henr. + Stayblbt, his merk. 

Anne Colson of Blackwell, aged about 23 years. 
She saith that on fridaie last gon a senight, about one or two 
of the clocke the aftemoone that daie, this examinate was in 
John Chamber's howse aforesaid, where the said Alisone lay 
sicke, being present then and there the said Henrie Staveley 
and Isabell Guell, and Elizabeth Chambers, the good wyf of 
the howse. And then and there the said Alison, sittinge upp 
in her bedd wher she lay in the hall howse, by the fier syde, 
with her clothes on, did saye unto the said Henrie Stavelie, 
^^ Henrie, where is my brother John Chambers ?" whereunto 
he aunswered that he was in the feld. Then she said, '' Henry, 
I pray the beare witnes, yf there be any questions heareafter 
maid about my goods, I geve them to my brother John Cham- 
bers, and will that I be buried in Damton church, as neare my 
father as conveniently may be ; and I geve unto the poore of 
Darlington parishe 20^/^ And thus she, the said Alison, did 
speake of hir own mynd, without any question of any body, 
the said Elizabeth Chambers beinge at that tyme about some 
occasions of her own in the chamber nigh the hall, where she 
the said Alison lay sick ; where upon the said Elizabeth said, 
" Lalle" (meaning ADison, the sicke woman), ^' now, seing thou 
art so disposed to make thy will, thou might do well to sett 
in thy sister and brother as well as my husband f' wherupon 
the said Alison maid aunswer that she wold geve them nothinge, 
but wold geve all to hir brother John, And then the said 
Henry Stavele asked her what she wold geve to him ? She said, 
*' Yea, marry, whirii gives thou me ? I will geve the nought, foi; 



330 OBPOSITION8 AND OTHER 

thou never gave me any thinge/' And this examinate thinkeih 
that she was of perfect memory at that tyme, and all that 
weake before^ for any thinge that this examinat could perceave, 
saving that sometymes^ by extremitie of sicknes^ she wold 
speake idle words. 

Ad interrog* He saith the said Alison was of good discre- 
(don, and that she used to buy and sell att markett such things 
as belonged to her brother's house, and did take chardge of yt, 
as the howswyff, till he was maried. And this examinate 
thinketh that she was of good discretion to goveme her self 
and dispose of her goods. 

He saith that divers dales, the weake next before she died, 
she spoke somewhat idlie and vainlie, by reason of the ex- 
tremitie of her sicknes on Wednesdaie and Tewsdaie next 
before her death. And when she was asked by the folk that 
cam in how she didd, she wold answer somewhat vainlie. 

He saith that, about two or three dales next befor her death, 
when she was asked by dyvers, namely, by John Midleton, 
Lawrenc Elgie, and dyvers others of the parish aforesaid, unto 
whom she wold geve her goods, and whether she wold geve 
any thing to her sister Elizabeth Chambers and Leonard 
Chambers, she said some tyme that they shold have somewhat, 
but how much this examinate cannot depose. 

Signum + diet® ANNiB Colson. 



CCCXLII. William Whitxorb, Gen. against Peteb 
Tailer, in causa defamationiS. 1588. [E. .] 

Leonard Ripley of Auckland S^ Helen, yoman, aged about 
51 years. 

He saith that, aboute Magdalene day last past, this exami- 
nate being at Mr. Whitmore his dore, in St. Helene Aickland 
aforesaid, about three or foure of the clocke in the afternone, 
the said Sir Peter Tayler came to the said Mr. Whitmore his 
wif, and asked her who went to Brauncepeth the morowe? 
She aunswerd, ^' This examinate shall goe.'^ '^ He had neede be 
war for givinge a true note of the furniture,'^ said Sir Peter; 



EC0LBSIA8TICAL PROCEXDINGS. 331 

wherupon she annswerd him^ the said S^ Peter^ ** What have 
you to doe with yt ?'' Then the said S^ Peter, seminge to be 
verie angrie, said unto her, the said Mr. Whitmore his wif, 
^ Tour husband is an undewtifull su|;)ject to his Prince ; and you 
and he^' (meaning, as this examinate thinketh, the said Mr. 
Whitmore and his wif), " loks for the day of popery .... but 
you wil be deceyved.'^ And therupon the said Sir Peter, 
taking a book which he had in his hand up, holding yt up said, 
^* By this book I will be at S'. William Bowes to-morrow befor 
10 of the clok^ to compieyn of you both." 

Leonard Reaplbt. 

Anna Williamson, of Aickland St. Helen, aged about 18 
years. 

She saith that, about Magdalemasselast, this examinate being 
at Mr. Whitmor her father his dore with her mother, Leonard 
Ripley her contest, and divers others, in St. Helen Aickland 
aforesaid, about sune sett of the same day, the said Sir Peter 
Tailer came to them where they were sitting, and said to Mr. 
Whitmor his wif, '^ Who goeth to the muster ?** Wherupon 
she aunswered, " Leonard Ripley,'^ this examinate her contest ; 
whereupon he, the said Peter Tailer, said, " Trewlie, Leonard, 
you had need to take heed, for all the sweight will lie on you.^^ 
So the said S^ Peter Tayler, growinge angrie, upon what occa- 
sion this examinate knoweth not, said to Mrs. Whitmore, 
" Your husband," meaninge Mr. Whitmore, said he, *' is an 
unduetifull and an unlawful subject, and that he was rune 
awaie when he should serve his Prince ;'' and said, that the 
day was at hand which she and her husband bad longe loked 
for, yet they wold be deceyved. And therupon took a book 
and said, by God's grace he would compleane of them, mean- 
ing Mr. Whitmore and his wife, to S'. William Bowes before 
10 of the clock. + 

Elizabeth Parkin of Aickland St Helen's, spinster, aged 
21 years. 

"your husband is an unduetifull and unlawfoU subject; 

and that the daye of ther trumpere poperie was comed which 
they loked for.'* — + 



332 DEPOSITIONS AND OTHBR 

Thomas Swainston of Aickland St Helen^ husbandmair^ 
aged 50 yean. 

This examinate^ coming firom the markett, the said Sir Peter 
Taiier told this examinate that Mr. Whitmore was about to 
place another in his place; and, seminge to be angrie, said 
that Mr. Whitmore was an unduetifull subject, and that a sherif 
balif was to seeke him, but he would not be spoken with ; and 
that he was gone awaie because be would not serve his Prince 
''and loket for*' (meaning Mr. Whitmore) ''rotten poperie, but 
he will be deceaved." And moreover said he woulde compleane 
to Mr. Colmore of him. Signum TnouM + Swanston. 



CCCXLIII* Alicb Watson aoainst Barbara Appleby, 

IN CAUSA DBFAMATIONIS, 10 JuL. 1591. [E. •] 

Christopher Glover of Durham, yomau, aged about 
44 years. 

He saith that one day, about Candlemas last, this examinate 
was sitting emongst others at Thomas Whit's shop stall, situate 
on Franwelgait bridg end, towards Franwelgate, and did see 
and heare the said AUice Watson and Barbary Appleby chiding 
togither. At which tyme this examinate did see Rebecca 
Bangell and Isabell Rodham, sitting a little nigh thereby, yet 
this examinate cannot now depose that he did then ste 
Thomas Smethers articulate there, or in any the places 
articulat ; notwithstanding (for that the said Thomas might then 
have bene in divers places thereabout, this examinate not 
seeing him) for that the said Thomas, talking about ten daies 
agoe with this examinate of that matter, did then declare divers 
tokens, as, namely, the apparell of such two persons as at the 
tyme and place aforesaid satt with this examinate; likewise 
speaking of one that, having a burthen of wood on his back at 
the said bridg end, did then jussell upon a strainger naymed to 
be a Duke, which then was rydeing out of the towne; and, 
likewise, that Thomas White, aforesaid, was then cutting purse 
lynings in his shop. All which this examinate knoweth to be 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS. 333 

trew ; and therefore he is the rather persuaded in his conscyence 
thinke that the said Thomas was present at the time of the 
chiding aforesaid. 

Christopher Glover. 



CCCXLIV. Katherinb Horselet against Matthew 
Ogle, in causa defamationis. 10 Dec. 1591. [E. .] 

Nicholas Bell of Netherwitton, yeoman, aged about 55 
years. 

He saith that, on Mary Magdalene daie last past, this exa- 
minate, rydeing in company with Mr. Roger Graie from Mor« 
peth to Longhorsley, did by chance meete Matthew Ogle 
articulate in the way ; to whom the said Mr. Gray, after certaine 
speaches had betwixt them, said that he had nothing to talke 
with the said Ogle, for that he had sclandered his aunt Kathe- 
line Horseley, in that the said Matthew Ogle had reported 
that the said Katherine hir first husband was then lyving (she 
then being maried againe to Mr. Georg Horsley) ; whereto the 
said Matthew answered, *^ All that you and I both have will 
not [dytt *] stop their mouthes that saie so.*' Whereupon the 
said Mr. Graie willed him to name one that said so, which the 
said Matthew refused to doe, saing he would not make him 
that accompt, but that which he had spoken he would say it 
againe ; then and there being present the said parties above said, 
George Fenwick, and others. 

He saith that Mr. George Horseley, husband to the said 
Katherine, doth greatly dislike and evill use and entreat the 
said Katherine, by reason of those speaches uttered by the said 
Matthew Ogle. 

He saith that he dwelleth on Mr. Thometon's land, and is 
worth 8£, iBre alieno deducio. 

Ntchollas Bell, 



* This ezpreflftive and still common word is struck out, and the synonymous Hop 
adopted* 



334 DSPO0ITIONS AND OTHSB 

Oaobob Fbnwickb of Horton, yeoman, aged about 33 

years. 

Ut supra. He saith that he is servant to Mr. Roger Gray, 
who he thinketh beareth the charges of this suite ; and that this 
deponent is worth £S Ss. Sd., his debts paied.* 

Geobob Fenwick. 



A 



CCCXLV. The will of Christopher Swinburne, late 

OF Thbocklbt, 21 Jan. 1591. 

Ralph Rbadhead of Throckley, husbandman, aged about 
7p years. 

He saith that on a day, about SK Helin daie last past, the 
sud Christopher Swinburne, lyeing sieke in this examinat's 
house, and being of perfect memory, did say to his brother 
John Swinburne then present (for whom he had sent before) as 
foUoweth : ^' Brother, I have none to putt my children to but 
you, and I have nothing to give them but my lease of my farme- 
hold, which you already have ; and if any of my goods spare, my 
debts being paied, let them have the same ; and I pray you 
take them, for other wise I thinke they roust goe a begging/' 
Whereto the said John answeared that he wold take them, and 
that so longe as he had one grot's worth of geare they should 
not beg } then and there being present the said John Swinburne, 
this examinate and his wife, Isabell Readhead, and Isabel 
Bowgham, and no moo. 

Signum + Radulphi Readhead. 



* Roger Gray of Ghillingham, gen., aged about 33 years, deposoB in the same way. 



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GLOSSARY. 



AoATTWABD, 239. Onwarda on the gate 
or road, in the direction in which they 
were going. 

AiDOEMAN. A man advanced in age. 

Alltment, 192. Element ; here the air. 

Almert, 51. A chest for clothes or 
other valuables. 

Ancakhouse, 281. The .house occupied 
by an anachoret, anchoret, or hermit. 

An, and, 269. We should now use the 
word than. 

Ahblinge baenes, 281. The bams or 
granaries occupied by the almoner of 
the cathedral before the dissolution, 
which are still standing, near the new 
Granmiar School. 

Aeticulate. This word has reference 
to the precise article of the libel to 
which that part of the deposition in 
which it occurs is an answer. 

As. How. To ask as he did, in the case 
of a sick person, passim. 



Bail, 306. The bail or watch-fire. 

Besier, bvbteb. a thrasher of com, as 
under. 

Bert, berrt, hurt, 267, &o. To thrash 
com with a staff upon an elevated 
stump of wood resembling an anvil, or 
with a flail upon a floor* 

BoDTES neu*, 246. Probably a mistake 
for nether ; the inner sur&oe of the 
body of the ooat, the lining. Over- 
bydye in the page refnred to is erro- 
neously explained there by a conjectural 

. oiwrbmdiai^^ No doubt Uiis is the outer 
body or upper surface of the coat. 

BoRROWMAN, 248. A person in office in 
the town, perhapa one of the four-and- 
twenty, or, what is more probable, one 
of the copyhold court. 



BoTEiXy 32. A pottle or certain quantity 
of hay ; hence the proverb to seek for a 
needle in a pottle (not bottle) of hay. 

Bowed, 282. To bow, to bend, to make 
crooked ; here applied to a piece of 
money. 

Bratinoe, 283. To bray groots ; here to 
beat oats in a. mortar, in order to dis- 
entangle the grain from its husks. 

Broukbll, 262. Not to be trasted. 

Browll, 76. A term of reproach, qj. 
the meaning? 

Bullt, 270. Here used in an endearing 
sense by a ikther when addressing his 
dying son. 

Butt, 268. " Butt lengthes," arrow 
flights. 

Bterlawes, 298. Bye-laws. 



C. 



Calence, 280. Challenge or claim. 

Cantle, 281 . A portion or section ; here 
applied to bread. 

Chaffs, 275. Jaws. 

Chard, 285. Chaige ; as knowled for 
knowledge. 

Chood, 261. The pret. of v. to chide. 

Chtmnet, 51. A moveable fire-place of 
iron. 

Claricords, 207. A musical instrument 
so called, resembling a spinet. 

Clarted, 813. Probably a mistake for 
carted, i, e. whipped at the tail of a 
cart by way of punishment. 

CoLLOPMOND, 256. Collopmonday, the 
Monday preceding Ash Wednesday, on 
which day eggs and collops, by an old 
custom, constituted the dinner of those 
who were able to procure them. 

Compurgatores, 308. P^vons sworn to 
pui^ or desff the character ot one ac- 
cused, by an oath that in their opinion 
he was innocent of the crime laid to 
his chaige. 



3S6 



GLOSSARY. 



Cowngtf ooNTBiiB. A fellow whlMM. 
CoBSBCD, 272. CrcMMd ; lignedluiii with 

the ngn of the cro«. 
CooRTiiio, 815. A ooortjsrd or indoiare 

before or behind a maneion-hoaee. 
CouaTEAH, oowsuuNO) 259. A roogfa 

bmgging fool, who grins but does not 

bite; perhepe from tettrdf a baatard 

hawk. 
Crasbd, 69. Labouring under nokneei, 

leriouBly ill. 
Cboks, 77. Crooks by which a boiler 

was suspended over the fire. 
Cbteioub, 268. A creature ; here eri- 

dently used in reproach — a pitiM 

creatursi a coward. 



D. 



Pmonty 275. In his danger, under his 

influence, in his power. 
DoMiMHB, 192. From p. 188 it would 

appear that this was a slang term for 

the Book of Homilies. 
DooNBLTMO, 21 1 . Upijunge and doone- 

lyng, getting up and lying down, liring 

day and night in the house. 
Dous MEI0HB0UB8, 275. Nozt door 

neighbours. 
Dttt, 888. To stop up. 



E. 



EoiFTiBN, 258. An Egyptian or Oip^. 
EiSH, 264. Ash, the wood so called. 
Eldmothsr, 818. A grandmother. 



P. 



Faicteb, FAwmty 172. A person iriio 
has committed a feult. 

Faisten eybn, 808. Fasting-even, the 
even before Ash Wednesday. 

Fabte, 100. Here used oollectiyely for 
the &irie8. 

Finding, 61, 88. To find, to provide 
bed and board for, to keep. 

FULCHBT, 820. A wooden bottle in 
shape of a barrell. 

Fleit, 207. See note ad pag. 

FuTTTD, 810. To flit, to remove to 
another place of residence. 

FooBSHOuaB, 285. The room in a house 
made use of on ordinary occasions, (rom 
which there was a door into the par- 
lour. The forehouse was the room flrst 
entered from the principal doorway. 



FoBBom, 808. Withmony oothe and 

forbotts; forbiddings, imprecations in 

asseveration. 
FoBSBBBiHOUia, 821. My being brought 

forth to be buried. 
FoBTHiNKB, 22. See the note. 
FoBWATCHBD, 275. Wom out from want 

of sleep or rest. 
Fbatbd, 286. To fray, to attack or 

Fbatmbd, 270. To frayn, to question. 
Fbkmdb, 52. See note. 
FoBCHAiK, 115. Fustian. 



G. 



Gaudbb, 164, 178. Beads constituting a 
rosaiy used in enumerating devotional 
exercises, and probably deriving their 
name from the first word of the hymn 
Oaude Virgo Ckrittipwra, p. 136. 

Gbabb, 384. Wealth, property, substance. 

GiMBB, 284 . A ring formed of two inter- 
twisted rings of gold or silver, gemellus, 

Gbaittb. Graitte of the church style, steps, 
tromgradut, 

Gbathb, 275. Goods, property, sub- 
stance. 

Gbooib, 288. Oats ; v. Bbatinoe. 

Gboxb bowbd, 288. A groat, or four- 
pence of silver, bowed or bent. 

Gbown, 802. Ghrovm com is com which, 
in consequence of wet weather, has 
b^gun to grow or sprout in the sheaf 
after it has been reaped, and before its 
removal from the ficdd. 



H. 



Halubbed, 279. Holy-bread. 

Handfast, 58, 79. The proceas of hand- 
fastening is fully explained in the latter 
of these pages. 

Heft, 281. Helped. 

Het Roiffe Sonqs, 269 ? 

Hewino, 141. Perhaps a mistake for 
heaving. 

Hog, 272. A young sheep. 

HouoHBLLB, 264. Here explained to be 
synonymous with kidgells or cudgells ; 
stout sticks. 

HousEWBiOBT, 289. A house carpenter. 



I. 

JussBLL, 332. To jostle. 



GLOSSARY. 



337 



K. 



Kenhd, 272. To ken, to know, or re- 
cognise. 

KiDGELLy 264, 295. A cudgel or stout 
stick. 

Ki&KALL, 248. Church-ale, a rejoicing 
upon the anniversary of the dedication 
of a church. 

KiST, 208. A chest. 

Knowled, 90. Knowledge. 



L. 



Lap, 65. Leapt There is a misprint in 

the note. 
Lathed, 239. Concealed. 
Lemon, Leman, 226, 312. A concubine. 
Leytng, 256. Livelihood, the means of 

living. 
LiGHES, 320. Leas, meadows. 
Likhed, 59, 239. Spoken of as likely to 

become man and wife. 
Ltg, 275. To lig, to lie. 
Ltmmer 51, 83. An idle vagabond. 



M. 



Malison, 319. A curse. 

Mangabell, 76. Mongrel. 

Maet. An oath by ti^e name of the 

Virgin Mary, passim. Hod. Marry. 
Maseb, 51. A drinking bowl, generally 

of wood hooped with silver. 
Masbljen, 805. Wheat and lye mixed 

together. MixtiMo, 
Matmswoene, 89. Manswom, forsworn* 
Melt, 321. Mell, to meddle. 
Mawinoe time, 281. Mowing time. 
Mentei, 327. See note. 
Metell, 195. Earth, stones, rubbish. 
MiCHEBT, 251. Knavery. 
MocHADOO, 246. The name of a cloth. 
MooNE, 285. Moan, complaint. 



N. 



Name, in name with, 256. Spoken of as 
likely to form a marriage. See likened. 

New taite, 88. The New Gate, or 
prison. 

Newke, 267. A comer. 

NiNNABUS, 49. See note. 



O. 



Onbodden, 190. Unbidden, uninvited. 



Ob now, 122. Before now, before this 
time. 

OvEBBTDTk, 246, V. Bodyes. 

OyEBPUTTJ818. To overput an illness 
is to refAver firom it. 

OzOANO, 293. As much ground as will 
afford to an ox food in grass, and occu- 
pation in tfflflgfl ^uri*^g the year. 



Passe, 185. Ye passe not ; ye care not 
for. 

PATSUffDAT, ) 87, 239. Easter Sunday. 

Patmundat, ) Easter Monday. Patcha,. 

Peiste, 116. Forcest. 

Pbecontestis, 192. A fellow witness 
whose deposition had been previously 
taken. 

Pbeised. Pressed, endeavoured. 

Pboctob of St. Oswald's, 211. The 
officer under the dean and chapter, 
who collected the tithes, &c. of the 
parish, the vicar being at that period 
endowed with a fixed money payment. 



R. 



Rated, 249. Scolded. 

Reasi, 258. Arrest. 

Riall, 314. A royal, a gold coin so 

called. 
RiYE, 319. Tear. 
Romoe, 304. Rummage, disturbance, 

riot. 
RuNNEB, 270. A runagate. 



S. 



Saqg^bston, 280. A sacristan or sacrist 

Satned, 272. Exorcised. 

Seanfs, 218. Episcopal or archidiaconal 
visitaticms. 

Shobt-tongxted, 289. Not able to pro- 
nounce his words at length, from in- 
toxication. 

Shutt of, 312. Free fronu 

Skailde, 259. Withdrew, dispersed. 

Skeill, 104, 296. A tub for carrying 
water. 

Skeffull, 194. A basketfuU. 

Skbied, Skbted, 803, 296. Descried, 
saw, observed. 

Skbike, 287. A shreik. 

Sleb, 50. Slay. 

Smatteb, 278. Defile. 

Z 



SS8 



OL088AIIT. 



8ifOwe% 106. 8att4g«» itfll a cu mmw ii 

toiii of reproadi. 
SowMB, 80. Ttmom used in ptooghing. 
SPAnsn, 814. Bolted. 
Stembd, 245. Spoke, dinooned. 
8iBBiiSD^ 2M. Diiftieined. 



T. 



Tbrtb, 275. Ou«. 

TiTB, Ttitke, 822, 285. Soon, looner. 
To, 252, 275. UntU. 
ToBFLBD, 285. A torfled animal is an 

a diilocated joint. 



U. 



Uino,800. Until. 



UntTimoB, 211. ▼• DowiaTiio. 



Waiks ftkrb, 285. The Britain fire 

on Midstinuner Eto. 
Watgait, 269. Departure. 
Whapp ru coon, 292. Gito him a 

thnahing. 
Wbinnb, 820. That which in the aoatbern 

counties is called fnne. 
Wholbt, 818. Heartily. 
WoBDB, 150. What worde of them ; 

what became of them. 



Y. 
Yaitb, 291. Gates. 






INDEX HOMINUM. 



A. 



Adamaon, John, 52. 

A'GTaung, Grawnge, John, 306, 307. 

Aidon, Aydon, Agnes, 70. 

Gawen, 70, 73. 

Aier, Aire, Ayer, Ayr, Rob. 808, 309. 

Simon, 171, 172. 

Tho. 309. 

Alanaon, Allanson, Allenson, Edw. 82, 

83 

'— Geo. 252, 253. 

Joh. 37. 

AUein, Beatrice, 232. 
AUerton, Rio. 55. 
Alnwick, the Abbot of, 26. 
Alnwood, Edw. 82. 
AndeiBon, Awndenone, Bart. 77. 

Elinor, 91. 

Eliz. 247. 

Gab. 71. 

Ingram, 326. 

Kath. 313. 

— — Margery, 321. 

Mrs. 77, 78. 

Rob. 79. 

Tho. 313. 

Andro, Androo, Ghristabelle, 289, 240. 

Androwes, Will. 223. 

Angeesyd, Tho. 71. 

Appleby, Appulbie, Barbara, 332« 

Henr. 52. 

Archer, Wedo, 100. 
Aresome, Cristiana, 27. 
Arkle, Jasper, 89. 
Armestrong, Janet, 52, 53, 83. 

Mat. 91. 

WiU. 66. 

Armirer, Armourer, John, 317. 

— — Marion, 27. 

Ascombe, Agnes, 51. 

Ashe, Asshe, Eshe, Oliver, 137,138, 168, 

169. 
Rob. 817. 



Asley, Asleye, WiU. 221, 224, 225. 

Atohuson, Martin, 89. 

Atkenson, Atkinson, Atkynson, Alice, 84. 

Ant. 48. 

Beatrix, 28. 

Grawen, 60. 

Geo. 60. 

James, 200. 

John, 77, 78,271,272, 273,274, 



276. 



Marg. 87. 
Rob. 87. 
Tho. 92. 



Auckland, Aukland, Awkland, John de, 
14. 

Rich. 204. 

Sir Edw. priest of, 180. 



B. 



Backworth, Baoworth, John, 328. 
Baiker, Bayker, Isabell, 244. ' 

Will. 97, 98, 208, 209. 

Baills, Baylls, Tho. 248, 249. 
Bainbridg, Bainbridge, Bainbrig, Elinor, 

81. 

John, 52, 321. 

— — Lancelot, 321. 

Tho. 321. 

WiU. 310. 

Balye, Bayley, Bayly, WiU. 64, 65. 
Banckus, Bancus, Rich. 144, 145, 159, 

160. 
Barber, EUz. 84. 
-^^— Johanna, 33. 
Bargait, Geo. 189. 
Barker, Rob. 27. 

wm. 06. 

Barkman, Joh. 19. 
Barley, Agnes, 314. 

Rich. 314. 

Bameby, Reginald de, 4. 
Barnes, Adam de P, 8. 

Z 2 



340 



INDBX nOlilNUIf. 



Bcraei, Rob. 8. 
Bamw, Barro, Geo. 100, 101. 
Barton, Coiutnd, 221, 222, 224. 
Baitnm, Joh. 30. 

Mariot, 30. 

Batkforth, Joh. de, 20. 
Batmanaon, .«.. 76. 
Bawmor, Rob. 140. 
Baxter, Baxtor, laabell, 81. 

Joh. 148. 

Tbo. 116. 

Beck, Becke, Beke, Anthony, Bishop of 
Duiiiam, 2. 

Jac. 79. 

John, 252. 

Bedftirth, my Lord of, 99. 
Bedlington, Ric. de, 20. 
Bell, Arthur, 818. 
■ Edni. 86. 

John, 32, 35, 252, 254, 255, 



318. 



Nltug, 85. 

Rich. 156, 157, 218, 219. 



BeUasya, Rich. 32. 

Rob. 82. 

Belton, Mariot de, 89. 
Benett, Bennett, Rich. 280. 

WUl. 216. 

Bentley, Nan, 142. 
Betaon, Joh. 280. 

Tho. 104. 

Benth, Ric. 280. 

Beverlaco, WiU. de, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 

19, 20. 
Bewik, Bewike, Bewyke, Anne, 117. 
— — Cuthb. 91. 



•^ Aiai^. 91. 



BiUingh«ai, the bailiff of, 197. 

Yitariua de, 83. 

Birtefeld, Byrtfeld, Kath. 125. 

Sibella, 53, 54. 

Bitleston, Rob. 318. 
Bhickberd, Tho. 100. 
Blaikloke, John, 217. 
Blakett, Joh. 37. 
Blakiston, Blaxton, Cuthb. 125. 

Joh. 232, 233. 

Mrs. 233. 

-*_ Rob. 238. 

Blenkenaop, Blenkinsop, Blenkinsopp, 

^ Blenkynsop, Agnes, 89, 108, 109. 

Rob. 89, 102. 

Roland, 146. 

Wai. 148, 145, 160. 

Blithman, Eliz. 66, 67, 68. 

' James, 66. 
— Kath. 83. 

Mother, 74. 

Blithom, Blirthom, Blirthome, Chris. 
237. 



BlHfaora, Blirtfaoni, Blirthorae, Tho. 317. 

Bonour, Joh. 25. 

Borne, John, 86. 

Borrow, Geo. 101. 

Boston, Will. 21, 22. 

Boteler, Ric. 86. 

Boton, WiU. 26. 

Boulton, Booltone, Tho. 72. 

Boutflower, John, 283. 

Bowes, Mr. 230. 

Sir Wm. 831. 

Sir Geo. 229. 

Bowgham, Isabell, 331. 

Bowham, Chris. 92. 

Bo^-maker'b wife, 112. 

Bowman, Joh. 50. 

Bowmer, Agnes, 29. 

Brackenborough, Brakenbyr, Rich. 283. 

Bradforth, Braidfurth, Christabell, 76, 77. 

Luke, 318, 319. 

Tho. 285, 286. 

Brake, Simon, 219, 220. 
BramweU, Will. 86, 87. 
BranoepeUi, Sir Robert, curate of, 177. 

the priest of, 140, 142. 

Brandling, Brandlinge, Brandlyng, 

Brandlynge, Branling, Henr. 121, 124. 

Mrs. 128. 

Rob. 81, 123. 

Sir Rob. 58, 83, 121, 122, 123, 

124, 125, 279. 

WiU. 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 121, 



123, 124. 

Tho. 124. 



Brandshaw, Rob. 161. 

Brantyngham, WiU. de^ 20. 

Branxton, Joh. 84, 

Brasse, WiU. 241. 

Breerton, Mrs. 323. 

Brian, Bryan, Rich. 241, 242. 

Brice, Job. 169. 

Bridge, Chris. 276. 

Brigham, Brygham, WUI. 116, 117, 199. 

Brigs, G. 313. 

Brimley, Bromeley, Bromley, Biymley, 

John, 133, 137, 148, 149. 
Brodie, Captain, 255. 
Brome, Isabella, 29. 
Brone, Broune, Brown, Browne, Ailison, 

327. 

Barbara, 313. 

EUz. 76, 120. 

Geo. 217, 218. 

Isabell, 219. 

James, 80. 
— ^ Jane, 126. 
John, 144, 159, 160, 174,176, 

198. 

■ Tho. 76, 318. 
BroweU, Geo. 88, 89. 



INDBX HOMINUH* 



341 



Brace, Rob. 2. 

Bullock, Bullocke, Chris. 95. 

Rob. 261. . 

Will. 200. 

Bulmant Edw. 80. 

GUb. 80. 

Lancelot, 187, 188, 198. 

Burden, Burdon, Agnes <Uias Anne, 

247. 
^—^^ Anne, 198. 

Wai. 198, 247. 

BurdewB, Petr. de, 20. 
Bulges, Rob. 279. 
Burne, Isabell, 112. 
Burnop, Buraope, Job. 181. 
Burrell, Isabell, 91. 

Marm. 91. 

Ralph, 84. 

Butiman, Lancelot, 110. 

Butterie, Rob. 51. 

Butre, Hugo de P, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19. 

Byers, John, 177. 

ByUye, Rob. 83. 

Byrk, Alex. 75. 



, C. 

Cairsley, Caisleie, dame, 81. 
— Rauf, 81. 
Calvin, John, 814. 
Cammo, Job. 48. 
Car, Carr, Agnes, 97, 98. 

Cuthb. 92. 

Fortune, 84. 

> Lancelot, 188. 

Tho. 97, 98. 

Carlell, Henr. 68. 

IsabeU, 72. 

Carmeli, Fratres de Monte, 67. 
Carter, Carther, Galfrid, 254. . 

Rich. 189.. 

WiU. 125, 126. 

Casson, John, 312, 313. 
Castell, Francis, 284. 
Catchesid, Catchesyd, John, 60, 61, 102. 
Ceton, Will. 30. 
Chaitour, Chris. 123. 
Chamber, Chambers, Chambre, Chaum- 
ber, Allison, 328, 329, 330. 

Eliz. 328, 329, 330. 

James, 211, 212. 

John, 305, 328, 829. 

Isabell, 318. 

Leonard, 330. 

Rich. 17«, 180. 

Rob. 304. 

Champion, Job. 1. 
Chapman, Ambrose, 219, 220. 
Arthur, 231, 232, 279. 



Charelton, fciandy, 42. 
Chertsye, Benet, 124. 
Chester, cnratus de, 198. 

Sir Richard, priest of, 58. 

Chicken, Chikin, Cbiking, Chikinge, 
Chikyn, Geo. 113. 

Rob. 317. 

Rog. 264. 

Tho. 76. 

Clapam, Dorothea, 50, 51. 

Clark, Cbirke, Clerk, Clerke, Janet, 70. 

John, 151, 297, 298, 299, 300. 

— — Marg. 303. 

Rob. 808. 

RoUnd, 114. 

WiU. 184. 

Clarves, Mr. 284. 

Claverynge, Will. 98. 

Clewgh, Clewghe, John, 269, 273, 274. 

Clibbom, Tho. 90. 

Cliff, aiffe, Geo. 136, 137. 

Clitherow, Rich. 23. 

Coekey, Cocky, Cokkye, Will. 219^220, 

225, 226. 
Cok, Cokke, Cooke, Janet, 88. 

John, 26, 88. 

Tho. 33. 

Will. 181. 

Colemore, Colmore, Clement, 315, 322,' 

332. 
Colling, CoUinge, Collyn, CoUyng, Janet, 

- 194, 195, 196, 197. 

Tho. 194, 195, 196, 197. 

Collingwood, Janet, 114. 
Mr. 113. 

Colson, Anne, 329, 330. 

Elinor, 281, 282, 288, 284. 

Geo. 109, 110. 

Rob. 283. 

Rog. 320, 

Tho. 302. 

Commyng, Comyng, Janet, 60. 
Constable, Ladie, 323. 
Conyers, Geo. 58. 

Job. 58. 

Coots, Ant. 170, 171. 
Copertwait, Peirs, 61. 
Cornefurth,Cornefurthe, Cornforth, Rob, 
166, 167, 168, 180. 

Tho. 35. 

Couper, Cowpar, Cowper, Alicia, 48. 

Eliz. 28. 

Geo. 204. 

John, 203. 

Win. 28. 

junior, 26. 

Cowthird, Davy, 286. 
Coxhou, Joh. 36. 

Crags, 67. 

Ciampton, John, 298, 299, 300. 



342 



INOBX HOMINUlf • 



Giftwe, Jiargeijf 195. 

Tho. 196, 249, 250. 

Cnwhall, Beatrix, 300, 801. 

Oroflt, Croft, JamM, 168, 166. 

■ Symon, 179. 

Oroisyer, Agnes, 81. 

Cuthbert, Guthberte, Geo. 110, 167, 

208, 209, 210, 211, 2l7. 
Cutter, Agnes, 60. 



D. 

Dacre, Phil, 60. 

Dag, John, 81. 

Dakyn, John, 67. ^ 

Dalby, WUl. 82. 

Dalton, Bertram, 81, 91. 

■ '■ ■ Janet, 87, 88. 

WiU, 26. 

Dande, Johanna, 808. 
_ Will 308 

DanieU, DanyeU.Rich. 182, 183, 284. 
Darcye, dom. Qeo. 64, 65, 66, 67. 
' Mary, alias Enrye, 66, 66, 67. 

Davinflon, DaTison, Davyson, Agnes or 
Anne, 254, 266, 266. 

Janet, 83. 

--^ John, 83, 242. 

■ Maig. 227. 

■ Rog. 86, 227. 

67. 

Dawgleis, Lanrencius, 89. 
Dawson, Geo. 84, 90. 

Marg. 84. 

Tho. 35. 

Dennant, Jae. 29. 
Dennis, Janet, 221, 222. 
Dent, Geo. 122, 124. 
Will. 124. 

Dichaunnte, Dichaunte^ Roger, 44, 46, 
46. 

Diekeson, Dicson, Dixon, Dixson, Fran- 
cis, 252. 

Gilb. 176,.176, 177. 

— Henr. 49. 

' Jenet, 322. 

NycoU, 62. 

. Rob. 249, 280. 

Wm. 62, 252. 

Diggles, Leonard, 316, 817. 

Dobson, Eliz. 320. 

Dobynson, Tho. 29. 

Dod, Dodde, Dodds, Dods, Doods, Agnes, 
90. 327. 

■ Barmy, 42. 

■ David; 318, 319. 
Edw. 90. 

■ Geo. 42. 
QiUy, 42. 



Dod, Dodde, Dodds, Dods,Doods, Janet, 

75. 

MichaeU, 60. 

Rob. 8. 

Rouley, 42. 

Sandy, 42. 

Dofenbie, Doffenby, Dol^by, Agnes, 96. 

John, 93. 94, 95. 

Rob. 96. 

Dolly, Rob. 31. 

Domyell, Ifarg. 28. 

Don, Done, Donn, Doon, Bog. 62, 63, 

64. 
Douglas, James Earl of, 2. 
Dowgfaat, Rob. 179. 
Drawlace, Job. 20. 
Druetus forestarius, 8. 
Dnffeld, Tho. de, 20. 
Dunelm. (tee Durham). 

Cuthb. Episo. 47. 

■ Hugo, Episc. 13. 

Jao. 70. 

Phi%pns, Episc. 13. 

Prior, 11, 30, 31, 84, 36. 

Ric. Episo. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 7, 8, 

9, 10, 37, 42, 44. 

Tho. Episc. 11, 19, 20, 21, 23, 



24, 26. 

Will. Episo. 13, 14. 



Dunsforthe, Dunsfourth, Dnnsfourthe, 

Rio. 53, 54. 
Duresme (see Durham). 
Durham, the Bishop of, 2, 101, 118, 119, 

200. 216. 292. 
— convent of, 26. 
Cuthbert Bishop of, 45, 46, 49, 

212. 
1 the dean of. 133, 134, 152, 163, 

164, 155, 156, 157, 216. 

James Bishop of, 128, 138, 143, 

pnor of. 9, 26. 

Rob. 99. 

Sir William, cunute of St. Nicho- 



146. 



las in, 188. 
Dttzfeld, Mr. 200. 



E. 

Easby, Eeasby. Rob. 125. 126. 
Eastfielde. John. 249. 250. 
Eastgate, Rich. 248. 
Eden, Jane, 181. 182, 183. 

Rob. 181. 

Ednam, .59, 60. 

Eggesdive. Job. 1. 
Eggleston, Alex. 63. 

Chris. 62, 63. 

— — Sanders, 268. 



INDBX HOMINUM. 



343 



Eggleston, Stephen, 64. 
Elder, Eldre, Eliz. 89. 

Tho. 8. 

Elgie, L. 330. 

EUesdon, EUiadon, Elsden, Ebdon, Eliz. 

88. 
■ John, 60, 88. 

EUson, EUiaon, EUyson, Gnthb. 283. 
— Johanna, 64. 

John, 92, 94. 

Mat. 220. 

WUl. 64. 

Elmedein, £Slmeden, Elmedcm, Jamei, 

234, 236, 236. 

Yaabella, 36. 

Essex, Joh. de, 14. 

Eltes, Eyttes, Lancelot, 241, 242. 

Eigiim, Bio. de, 7. 

Erii^gton, Emngton, Edw. 218. 

Isabell, 209. 

Bueni, Eure, Eury, Euiye, Lord, 182. 

Mary (see Darcy). 

Sir Raff, 66, 67. 

WiU. 64, 66, 66, 67. 

ETolingham, Joh. de, 8. 

Patricius de, 8. 

Ewbank, Ewbanke, Heubank, Anne, 77, 

78, 316. 



P. 



Paax, Will. 31. 

Faoon, Fawcon, Hana, 163, 166. 

Farefiixe, Will. 64. 

Farreles, FarrelesB, Farrolee, Fayerellers, 

Ant. 284. 

Henr. 101, 161. 

WiU. 47, 280, 281. 

Faucomberg, Anastaaia de, 10. 

— Walter, 10. 

Fauell, FaweU, Tho. 168, 208, 210. 

Fawciis, Rob. 76, 207, 208, 210. 

Fawdon, Johanna, 27. 

Fawsyd, Fawsyde, John, 286, 286. 

Fayfaar, Alicia, 27. 

Fenecke, Fenicke, Fennicke, .Fennik, 

Fenwick, Fenwicke, Ant. 71. 

C5ath. 99, 100. 

•— — Constance, 99. 
■ Geo. 333, 334. 
— ^— James, 71. 

Rog. 94, 96, 96. 

Fermour, Rob. 30. 

Ferry, Ferrye, Ferye, Janet, 240, 241, 

242. 

John, 241, 242. 

Fetherstonhaigh, Alex. 84. 

Joh. 60. 

Fewler, Tiio. 247. 



Fidler, IsabeU, 188. 
Fisher, Henr. 308, 309. 

WUl. 101, 102. 

Fisshbum, Dom. 30. 

Flatt, FUtte, Rieh. 88, 89. 

Fleatham, Fleitham, Fletham, Rich. 186, 

187, 188, 190, 192. 
Fletcher, A^gnes, 112. 

John, 102, 112. 

— Roland, 112. 
Foister (see Forster). 
Forcer, Joh. 11. 
Forster, Foster, Agaea, 71. 
— — Anne, 89. 

Ant. 204. 

Geo. 164. 

^— ^ Janet, 51, 81. 
— — ^- John, 36, 61. 

Norman, 71. 

Rog. 82. 

Tho. 61, 72. 

WUl. 81, 101. 

Freeman, Henr. 80. 

Freind, Frend, Frende, Frennde, Hugh, 

108, 178, 206. 

John, 226, 226. 

FieiseU, FrisseU, EUs. 102, 103. 

WUL 69. 

Freman, John, 30. 
Frenche, WUl. 64. 
Fynck, Peter, 198. 
Fynlaw, Fynlawe, Rio. 27, 28. 



a. 



Gainford, Gaynford, Rob. 20. 

~— — Sir Nicholas, curate of, 69. 

GalaUe, EUz. 61. 

Garbut, Edw. 102. 

Gardiner, Gardner, German, 286, 814, 

316. 
Gaigraye, Master, 81. 
Garmonswaye, Henr. 183. 
Garnet, Gkmett, Edw. 69, 60. 

Rob. 246, 246. 

WiU. 60, 268, 264, 266. 

Garry, Cuthb. 382. 

Grace, 310, 811, 312. 

Garstell, Ant. 140. 

GeUea, GiUis, GylUs, GUb. 76, 84. 

Janet, 80, 84. 

Gelson, WUl. 289. 
Ghough, John, 30. 
Gibson, Gybson, Alan, 817. 

Cuthb. 188, 191, 193. 

■ dame, 81. 

Eliz. 100. 

Percival, 234, 236, 236. 237, 

238. 



341 



INDSX HOU INUlf. 



OibMD, QyiMon, Rich. 190. 

Tho. 186, 156. 

aUlezy, OiUezye, OiUyiye, £dw. 176, 

176. 
Oilping, Oilpyng, BaniArd, 88* 
— Mr. 87. 
OUaon, Gylson, Bob. 182, 188,166, 167, 

169. 
Glow, Chris. 882, 88S. 
Glym, Will. 21. 
Gofton, Tho. 261, 262. 
Goldesboigh, Tho. de, 6, 8. 
Goodhiuband, Tho. 201. 
Goondy, PhU. 222. 
Goose, Rob. 82. 

Gnie, Gray, Gnye, Grey, Adam, 27. 
' Alicia, 61. 

Arthur, 822, 828, 324, 825,826. 

I Edm. 50. 

Edw. 50. 

Geo. 102. 

— — John, 826. 

or NeaTell, Kath. Lady, 822, 828, 

324, 825, 826. 
«— Mat. 825, 826. 

Phil. 51. 

—— Rog. 323, 338, 334. 

Sir Tho. 322, 323, 324,325, 326. 



Grainger, Job. 194. 
Grame, Nich. 166. 
Graspeis, Henr. de, 20. 
Gray (see Graie). 
Grayden, Alicia, 34. 

DaTid, 34. 

Grayne, de V Grein, Greine, Grene, 

Marg. 77. 

John, 61, 77, 175. 

Rich. 248, 249. 

■ Will. 19. 

Gregaon, Ric. 190. 

Greinbury, Greinburye, Brian, 114. 

Chris. 114. 

John, 114. 

Grenehalgh, Petrus de T, 9. 

Greveson, Will. 189. 

Grey (see Ghraie). 

Grimwell, Grinwdl, Giynwell, Alice, 

269, 270, 273. 

Anne, 290, 291. 

Will. 290, 291. 

Grondye, Gronndye, Grundye, G^. 102. 

Roland, 243, 244. 

Gubion, Cnthb. 183, 185, 198. 
Gudynough, WiU. 20. 
Gublinge, Isabell, 191. 
Gublyon, James, 189. 
Gule, Isabell, 329. 
Gulling, Cuthb. 187 

. IsabeU, 187. 

Gustard, Rob. 49. 



Chij, Gye, Joh. 80, 81. 



H. 



Hagyrston, Job. 86. 

Haidon, Guy, 70. 

Halghton, Adam de, 8. 

Hall, Ant. 176. 

— -^ Elinor, 88. 

John, 80, 44, 50, 60, 88, 290. 

— Marion, 81. 

Mr. 196. 

Rob. 27, 28. 

■ Tho. 244. 

Will. 290. 

Halyday, Tho. 36. 

Harbom, Hartbom, Hartbome, Hart- 
bum, Chris. 184, 185, 187, 188, 193. 

Rich. 186, 194, 196, 196. 

Harding, Hardinge, WUl. 156, 158, 159, 
217. 

Hardington, Alice, 250. 

Hardye, The. 250. 

Harison, Harrison, Herison, Herreson, 
Herrison, Geo. 287, 288, 289. 

Job. 199. 

Lane. 306, 807. 

Marg. 112. 

Roland, 116. 

Tho. 133, 134, 163, 154. 

Will. 161. 

Harle, Leonard, 316, 317. 

Harradon, Mr. 114. 

Harrington, Alice, 249. 

Hartley, Rob. 229, 230. 

Harvye, Rob. 277. 

Hastings, Janet, 313. 

Haswell, John, 291. 

Tho. 106, 

Hawkines, 266. 

Headlam, Headlham, Hedlam, Hedlame, 

Brian, 110, 111, 187, 190, 193. 
Will. 108, 162, 163. 

Headley, Headly, Hedley, Hedlye, Edw. 
88. 

Isabell, 88. 

WUL 234, 287, 288, 239, 240, 

241. 
Hearon, Heron, Gerard, 91. 

Giles, 91. 

John, 49, 60. 

Hebbume, Agnes, 36. 

Hed worth, Heid worth, Anne, 117. 

Ant. 115. 

John, 114, 116. 

Mr. 102. 

Ralph, 114, 116. 

Rob. 114, 116. 

Tho. 114, 116. 



INDEX HOMINUM. 



o^Sf 



Hegheacre, Rob. 16. 

Heghington, Heighington, Rob. de, 6. 

Walter de, 6. 

WiU. 212, 213, 214, 216. 

Hely, Helye, Geo. 123, 124, 125. 

Hendel, WiU. 1. 

Henle, Job. de, 20. 

Henrison, Heniyson, Guido, 48. 

■ Rog. 49. 
Heron (see Hearon). 
Herrison (see Harison).. 
Hethe, Anne, 316. 
Heubank (see Ewbank). 
Hewet, Hewett, Eliz. 76. 

Rob. 76. 

Hewetson, Clement, 327. 
Higbe, Hygh, Hyghe, John, 242. 

■ Martyn, 241, 242. 
Tho. 242. 

Hind, Hinde, Hynde, IsabeU, 90, 91, 

120, 121. 
Hirde, Adam, 8. • 
Hirst, Henr.'65, 106, 206. 
Hixson, HyxBon, Roland, . 184,. 186, 186, 

187, 189, 191, 192, 193. 
Hodgson, Hogeson, Hodshon, Hodson, 

£dm. 284, 286. 

Mr. 124, 262. 

Ralpb, 182. 

. Rich. 296, 296. 

. Tho. 182, 284. 

Will. 290, 291. 

Hopper, Agnes, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 

273, 274, 276. 

Geo. 262. . 

Humphrey, 116, 266, 266, 267, 

268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 

276, 276. 

John, 287. 

Rog. 79, 266, 268, 270, 273, 274, 



276. 



Tho. 240, 266, 266, 267, 26&, 
269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 276, 276, 

Holmes, Homes, Hoolmes, Hoomes, Will. 
128, 130, 137, 138, 142, 144, 146, 146, 
148, 149, 160, 161, 162, 164, 165, 166, 
157, 168,161, 163, 166, 166, 167, 168, 
170,171,175. 

Homble, Geo. 113. 

Hoorde, Horde, Bart. 278. 

Ant. 63. 

Hoothome, Hotham, Hothome, Petr. 65, 
56. 

Will. 56. 

Hooton, Jane, 183 (see Eden). 

Hormesbie (see Omesbey). 

Homebie, Tho. l74, 175. 

Horsfall, Joh. Ill, 120,121. 

Horseley, Horsley, Agnes, 64. 

Edm. 64. 



Honeley, Horsley, Geo. 333. 
— — Jasper, 219, 
■ Joh. 54. 

Kath. 838. 

Rob. 84. 

Tho. 211. 



Hotham (see Hoothome). 
HowBon, Marg. 91. 

Huchonson, Huteheson, Hutohinson, Ant. 
246,247. 

Henr. 163, 164. 

Joh. 28. 

Rich. 205. 

Rob. 139, 140, 141, 142, 143.- 

Wedoo, 61. 

Hudson, Rich. 152, 154. 
Hudspeith, Edw. 64, 65. 

Will. 262. 

Hugonis, Henricus filius, 2. 
Hunstonworth, the parson of, 62. 
Hunter, Andro, 239, 263. 

John, 9, 32, 262, 263, 268, 269, 

273. 

'- IsabeU, 69, 106. 

Marg. 47. 

Sandy, 42. 

WiU. 35. 

Hymnor, Hyndmor, Rich. 248, 249. 
Hyndemers, Rob. 47. 



J. 



Jackson, Jacson, Jaxson, Agnes, 87. 

Henr. 87, 206. 

IsabeU, 67, 68. 

John, 313. 

Mariot, 29. 

Rich. 126. 

Rob. 27, 28. 

WiU. 289, 320. 

JekyU, Joh. 32. .. 

Jennynge, Jennyngs, Jenynges, Rob. 81. 

Tho. 257. 

Jobur, Tho. 26. 
Johnson, Edw. 312, 313. 

Eliz. 49. 

Helen, 262, 253. 

John, 92, 18Y, 192, 297, 298-, 

299, 300. 

Rich. 140. 

Simon, 252, 263, 272, 328. 

Tho. 32, 140, 142, 328. 



Joycy, Joycye, Marg. 78, 79. 



K. 

Kanatson, WiU. 230. 



346 



INDSX HOlflNUM. 



Kwrleton, Mr. 806* 

KeidineU, Keidland, Keidlem, KeidneU, 

KeUineU, KldUnd, 6m. 73, 74, 76, 

76. 

Rob. 73, 74, 75, 76. 

Kent, Henr. 295, 296, 297. 

Key, Keye, Frmncis, 314, 315, Sid. 

Ifarg. 814, 315, 816. 

Tho. 122. 

Kindleeide, Elix. 117. 
King, Tho. 118, 822. 
Kingston, Tho. 108, 159. 
Kirkham, Kyrkehun, iMbeUa, 87. 

-» Tho. 82, 87. 

Kiridiona, Kirkhus, Elix. 212, 218. 

Will. 212, 218, 214, 215, 220. 

Knighton, Tho. 154, 155, 215. 
KnoUes, Chris. 25. 
Knowell, Captain, 222. 



Labom, Labosne, Lajborne, John, 281, 
282. 

■ Rog. 44. 

Laddley ' Laddiy, Ladley, Ant 100, 101. 

Laiton, Rob. 110. 

Lambert, Ifarg. 84. 

Lame, Isabella, 29. 

Lange, James, 261. 

Langley, Bishop, 141. 

Langworth, Longworth, Ric. 215, 216, 

217. 
Lareye, Rob. de, 5. 
Lasingby, Lasonby, WiU. 178, 174. 
Lawe, Job. 82. 

Tho. del. 26. 

Lawson, Agnes, 26. 

Chris. 806, 807. 

EUs. 84. 

■ Gawen, 93, 95, 201. 

John, 26, 84, 267, 268, 269, 

270, 271, 272, 275, 283, 284. 
Laze, Johanna, 47. 
Leadham, Ant. 248, 249. 

Eliz. 248. 

Lee, Ley, Job. atte, 20. 

WiU. 64, 65, 216, 217. 

Ledg, Leg, Lege, Adam de la, 8. 
— — Ric. de la, 8 

Tho. 206, 207. 

Lethom, Job. 26. 
Letster, Emmota, 27. 
Lever, RaflTe, 216, 287. 

Tho. 202, 205. 

Ligh, Rob. 48. 

Lightfoth, Henr. 87. 

Lighten, Bartram, 91, 265, 271, 272. 



Ligfaton, Nio. 269, 278. 

Lilbom, Lilbome, Lylbomey John, 180, 

288 
Lisley,' Mr. 200. 

UUe, UtUe, Tho. 814, 816, 316. 
Leber, Janet, 89. 
Lockson, Florenc. 188. 
Lockye, James, 179. 
Lodesman, Ant. 47. 
Logan, Loggin, iMbell, 80. 

Janet, 80. 

— ^ Rob. 80. 
Longcaster, Job. de, 27. 
Lonsdaile, Ant. 292. 
Loremer, Ifatilda, 28. 
Low, John, 32. 
Lowson, Job. senior, 32. 
— — junior, 82. 

WiU. junior, 82. 

Loye, WUl. 88. 



M. 



Madock, 316. 

Maire, Mar, M^jar, WUL 325, 326. 

Male Lacu, Edm. de, 8. 

Maltbye, Janet, 170. 

Man, Jcim, 87. 

ManwaU, Manwell, James, 288. 

John, 288. 

Tho. 281, 282, 283, 284. 

Manyer, Oeo. 288. 
March, Tho. 307, 808. 
MarchaU, Joh. 32. 
MarkendaUe, Ant. 58. 
Markham, Adam, 194. 
Bfarley, Merley, AUce, 246. 

WUl. 132, 166, 167, 169, 232. 

Marmeduk, Joh. 1, 2, 8. 

Rk. 1, 2, 3, 4. 

MarshaU, Qeo. 42. 

— Johanna, 58. 
Joh. 25. 

Kath. 117, 226, 227, ^28. 

— PeroiTsl, 227. 
Rio. 207, 208, 210, 211, 215, 



216. 



Tho. 801. 
WiU. 48, 53. 



Martin, Mart^me, Martyne, Mar^^, 

James, 196. 
— *— Janet, 295. 

John, 242, 297, 398, 299. 

Lionel, 295. 

Marian, 52, 53. 

Mathew, Matthewe, Tho. 188, 144, 146. 
Mawe, IsabeU, 194, 195, 197. 

Mebom, 291. 

Medcaf, Medcal^ Metcalffe, CieUy, 125, 

126. 



INDBX HOMINT711. 



847 



MeldromOi aJtat De Inferno, Helena, 86 
Mellerbye, Melmerbye, WUl. 61, 212, 

214. 
Merington, Cicily, 194, 107. 
Metham, Tho. 55. 
Mewburn, Will. 30. 
Middleton, Midleton, Mydelton, Myddel- 

ton, Marg. 802. 

Mr. 200. 

John, 330. 

■ Tho. 828, 324, 326. 
Milbom, Milbome, Atkln, 42. 
— ^ Cryaty, 42. 

Howy, 42. 

Wm. 42. 

Milner, Mylner, Maig. 95, 96. 

Michael, 289. 

Rich. 199, 286, 287, 288, 289, 

290,291,292. 
Tho. 32, 96. 



Midforde, Mitforth, Mitfourth, Mydford, 
Mytford, Bart. 106, 107, 206, 297. 
■ curate of, 93. 

Mr. 82. 

Moffett, Constance, 86. 
Moiser, Chris. 85. 

John, 85, 

85. 

Monkchester, Will. 91. 
Mora, Adam de, 8. 

Gilb. de, 8. 

More, Geo. 92, 310. 

Marg. 92. 

Mores, Tho. 31. 

Will. 81. 

Morgan, Lancelot, 820, 821. 

Marg. 320, 321. 

Morland, Morlande, Chris. 176. 

Tho. 191, 198. 

Morpeth, John, 818. 

Will. 318. 

Morriss, Will. 256. 

Morrey, Isabell, 66, 

Mors, Eliz. 30, 86. 

Morton, Morton, Stephen, 259, 260, 261. 

— - Mat. 285, 286. 

Mousse, Isabella, 83. 

Mungonson, Alan, 1. 

Myddleham, Tho. 86. 

Mylner (tee Milner). 

Mytford (see Midforde). 



N. 



Natresse, WilL 27. 

Neid aliat Peircy, Agnes, 264, 266, 

256, 257. 
Neraud, Janet, 84. 



Nevell, Nevil, NevUl, NeviUe, NevyU, 
Nevyle, Cuthb. 141, 142, 148, 149, 
152, 157, 158, 168, 172, 176. 

John, 238. 

— -^ Katherine Lady, or Qraie, 822, 
323, 824, 325, 826. 

Lionel, 228, 229, 230, 231, 237. 

Phil, de, 20. 

Ranulph de, 8, 10. 

Rob. 2. 



Newcastle, the curate of St. Nioholai in, 

21, 26. 

Bfr. Maiorof, 821. 

Mr. Vicar of, 102. 

Newham, Alison, 195, 197. 
Newsom, Job. de, 20. 
Newton, Alicia, 27. 

Cuthb. 81. 

John, 88, 185, 193. 

Marg. 80. 

NichoU, NicoU, Cuthb. 315. 

James, 164. 

Nicholson, NicoUsan, Nioolsan, Nioolson, 

Agnes, 50. 

Hugo, 30. 

Jane, 308, 309. 

John, 194, 196, 199. 

-^— Isabella, 51. 

Blarg. 89, 308, 309. 

Stephen, 314. 

Nixson, Agnes, 160, 161. 

Gilb. 160, 161. 

Noble, Will. 190. 

Norham, WUl. de, 9, 10, 84. 

Northumberland, the Earl of, 144, 146, 

149, 161, 209. 
Northumbrise, Archidiaconus, 1, 14. 
Noyi Castri, yicarius B. Nicholai, 21 

(tee Newcastle). 
Novi Monasterii, Will, abbas, 24 • 

O. 

Ogle, Oglle, Chris. 235» 323. 

Geo. 37. 

Lord, 260. 

Luke, 82. 

Mark, 94, 95. 



. Mat. 258, 259, 260, 268, 333. 
- Raif, 258, 259, 260, 261. 
Rob. 71, 72, 200. 



Olyver, Evanc, 191. 

John, 140, 141, 142, 148. 

Omesbey, Hormesbie, Hormesbye, Rob. 

288, 289. 
Oxnett, Tho. 808. 



P. 



Paice, Will. 321. 



348 



INDKX HOMINUM. 



Palfrayman, Joh. 84. 

Ria 34. 

Palliaer, Rich. 811. 
Palmer, Edm. 222. 
Par, Parr, EUs. 195, 197. 
Parker, Agnes, 80. 

'■ Humphrey, 80. 
Parkin, Elis. 331. 
Patenaon, Pattenaon, Patteson, Pattin- 

eon. Ant. 280, 281. 

— Isabell, 86. 

John, 78, 79, 86. 

Patey, Agnes, 33. 

Pawson, Ghria. 118. 

Peircy, altat Neid, Agnes, 254, 255, 256, 

257. 

1 Rob. 254. 255, 256, 257. 

Peirson, Pereson, Person, Janet, 99, 100, 

320. 

Jenkyn, 99, 100. 

John, 112, 128, 138, 189, 144, 

145, 146, 148, 152, 158, 159. 

Rob. 128, 136. 141. 143, 146, 



148, 150, 151, 153, 157, 162, 178, 
190. 

WiU. 51. 100. 



Peirt, John, 228, 229, 230, 231. 
Pentland, Agnes, 103. 

Janet, 103. 

John, 103. 

Tho. 172. 

Peny, Henr. 250. 

Pethe, Pethie, Will. 310, 311. 

Pilkington, Pilkinton, Grace, 309. 

Leonard, 308. 

Pixelaye, Alice, 30. 

Place, Rob. 114. 

Poill, Janet. 81. 

Poison alias Somersett, Eath. 195. 

Poots, Rob. 94. 

Porter, Nich. le, 7. 

Tho. 8. 

Porteyace. Agnes, 36. 
Potter, Chris. 104. 

John, 185. 

Potts, John, 84. 

Mai^. 80, 81. 

Priorman. Agnes, 114. 
Prowde. Cuthb. 63. 
Pulter. WiU. 51. 
Pyknyng, Kath. 30. 



Quigheley, Rob. de, 4. 



R. 



Raic, Raise, Rayc. Marian, 310, 311, 312. 



Rackett, Rakett, John, 220. 

Mrs. 221. 

Rainton, Raynton, Rob. 35. 

Umphray, 270, 271. 

Rames, Greo. 68. . 
Rand. Tho. 318. 

WUL 82, 88. 

Rangell, Rebecca, 332, 

Ranoldson, WiU. 330. 

Ranson, An t. 141. 

RatcUf, RatcUff, RatUf, Ratlyf, Ant. 62, 

63. 64, 92. 
Raw, Rawe, John, 130. 

Rog. 83, 92. 

WUl. 278. 

Rawleing. Rawling, Rawllnge, Rich. 328, 

229, 230, 231. 

WiU. 175, 176. 

Ray, Raye, WiU. 97, 262. 
Readhead, Reidheid, Isabell, 334. 

Ralph, 334. 

Rob. 81. 

Realff, ReUffe, Margarie, 194, 196. 

Reapley (see Ripley). 

Reddshawe, Redshawe, Tho. 272, 275. 

Redeman, WiU. 27. 

Reed, Reid, Alice, 84. 

HelUnor, 90. 

John, 90. 

Kath. 90. 

Marg. 91. 

Rich. 84. 

Tho. 84. 

Reisley, Helen. 84. 
Resh. Maig. 70. 

Rog. 70. 

Richardson, Richerdson, Alice, 251. 

t Cuthb. 79. 

Henr. 277» 278. 

IsabeU. 76, 77, 89. 

John, 188, 213, 251. 

Marg. 69, 70. 

Nich. 87. 

Peter. 89. 

Tho. 76, 184, 187, 193. 

Wm. 78, 79. 

Richmond, Tho. 172, 173, 174. 

Rikerbye, Agnes, 117. 

Ripley, Reapley, Ryplie, Rypley, Agnes, 

316. 

Leonard, 330, 331. 

Rob. 316, 317. 

Rippon, Tho. 287. 

Robeson, Robison, Robinson, Robynson, 

Alice. 84. 

■ Davey, 42. 

Dorothy, 80. 

edw. 8<J, 93. 

Geo. 92. 

Giles, 217, 218. 



INDEX HOMINUM. 



349 



Robeson, Robiaon, Robinson, Robynson, 

James, 87, 88. 

• Jerrerd, 117. 

— — John, 29, 48, 63, 60. 

lAury, 42. 

: Rauf, 254. 

Rich. 264, 266. 

. Sandy, 42. 

Tho. 291,292. 

Will. 52, 68. 

Robson, Agnes, 64. 

Bertram, 206, 207, 208, 209, 

210, 211. 

Chris. 226, 227, 228. 

Edw. 226, 227, 228. 

Isabell, 108, 109. 

John, 108, 109, 128, 151, 318. 

■ Magdalen, 84. 

Percivall, 64. 

Tho. 109, 110. 

Rochester, Chris. 81. 
Roddham, Rodham, Isabell, 332. 

John, 125, 322. 

Rome, Joh. de, 14. 

Roop, Radulfus de, 1. 

Rookesbie, Rovsbye, Will 308, 309. 

Rose, Rosse, Alios, 250. 

John, 258, 259, 260, 261. 

Rothwell, Isabell, 322. 

Rich. 322. 

Rowell, Alex. 66. 

Henr. 101, 102. 

Isabell, 66, 

Rudd, John, 216. 

Rusher, John, 323, 825. 

Ruter {see Ratter), Rutledge, Ratios, 

Mat. 166. 
Ratter, Ruter, Eliz. 177, 178, 296. 

Geo. 178. 

Henr. 177. 

Roland, 284. 

Ryddell, Rydell, Agnes del, 26. 
Will. 124. 



S. 

Sadler, John, 266. 
Salvayn, Gerard, 122, 123. 
Sander, Agnes, 264. 

Rich. 264. 

Will. 263, 264, 265. 

Sanderson, John, 254. 
Sands, doctor, 146. 
Sankkye, Rob. 222. 
Sapcott, Nic. 308. 
Sawer, Janet, 79. 
Sayer, Joh. 10. ■ 
Sclater (tee Sklaitor) 
Scott, Skott, Geo. 112. 



Scott, Skott, Tho. 176, 176. 

Segefeld, Rob. 36. 

Seigian, Sergain, Sergaint, Rob. 87. 

Seton, Will, de, 32, 34. 

Sewell, Marg. 91. 

Shafffco, Shafitoo, Shafto, Mallye, 67. 

Marg. 313. 

Mr. 69. 

Sharpe, Beatrice, 27. 

Sharpro, Clement, 68, 69. 

Shawe, Charles, 106, l07, 108, 205. 

Shawte, Shawter, Eliz. 293, 294, 295. 

Rich. 293, 294. 

Sheile, Sheill, Henr. 102, 103. 

Sherston, Tho. 32. 

ShevUl, Ric. 9. 

Shillito,John, 57. 

ShipUnde, Joh. 32. 

Shotton, Rob. 61. 

Simpson, Sympson, Symson, Edw. 237, 

238, 239. 

John, 27, 238. 

Rich. 204, 266, 267, 270, 271, 

272, 275. 

WiU. 306, 307. 



Skelton, Nich. de, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. 

Skirlaw, Bishop, 141. 

Sklaitor, Sklayter, Sklaytor, Slaiter, Agnes, 

188. 

Jane, 312, 318. 

Michaell, 78. 

Rob. 170, 171. 

Will. 179, 180. 

Skorfeild, Skortfeild, Skortfeilde, John, 

174. 
Smalshankes, James, 326. 
Smethers, Smythers, Tho. 257* 
Smetheson, Smythson, Johanna, 33. 
Smirthwatt, Smarthwate, G«o. 140, 316. 
Smith, Smithe, Smyth, Agnes or Anne, 

234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240. 
' Bertram, 80. 

Cbiii, 102. 

Edw. 88, 189. 

Eliz. 239, 240. 

Geo. 322. 

Henr. 102, 103, 189. 

IsabeU, 204, 236. 

' Janet, 264. 

Johanna, 28, 48, 207. 

John, 33, 102. 

Lionel, 219. 

Mai^. 234, 236, 236, 237, 238. 

Rob. Ill, 206, 207, 208, 209> 



210. 



Rog. 92. 

WiU. 106, 189, 144, 160, 207, 



208, 209, 210. 
Smyrke, Joh. 26. 
Snadon (fee Snawdon). 



950 



INDEX HOlflNUM. 



Snawball, Nuiiie, 2^9. 

SoAwdoiiy Snadon, Snawdoney Jolm, 92, 

201. 
BIwg. 187, 191. 

■ Tho. 192. 

Soley, Solje, Tho. 284, SU, 236, 287» 

238, 239, 240. 
Somer, Sumer, Tho. 252. 
Somenekt, alias PoImb, Kath. 194, 195. 
Somenoo, Joh. 27. 
Sparke, Hugo, 51. 
— — Tho. 286. 
Spenc, Spenoe^ 8peiiM» GUb. 295, 290, 

297. 

■ Janet, 302, 803, 804. 
Spicer, Joh. 86. 

Spoore, Henr. 95, 96. 

Spomeitoii, Spornestone, Spornston, 

SpumeBlon, Job. 8. 
Tbo. 266, 267, 270, 271, 272, 

275. 
Spiyng, Job. de, 8. 

Stamper 118. 

Standlej, Edw. 326. 

Stathan, Stathance, Staytban, Bfair, 222, 

223. 

Rob. 222, 228. 

Stavele, StaTdej, Stavelie, Hear. 828, 

329. 
Steids, the Duke of, 163. 
Stereoflon, Alice, 243. 

Jobn, 179, 253. 

Mr. 184,811. 

Ralph, 161,162. 

Rob. 243. 

WiU. 211, 216, 237. 

Stillinge, Janet, 104. 
Stobbe, Jobn, 82. 
— — Rocdand, 51. 
fltoddert, Cntbb. 126. 

Sitbe, 125, 126. 

Tho. 105. 

tStokall, Job. 76. 

Stokdaill, alias Stokton, Cbfu. 303, 304. 

Stokoo, Alice, 89. 

Stokton, Job. de, 17, 19. 

Stone, Story, Storye, Chru. 245, 246. 

Eliz. 318, 319. 

Geo. 319. 

OUee, 318, 319. 

Ralph, 319. 

Will. 281, 283. 

Stout, Stowte, Edw. 165. 

Reginald, 305, 306, 307. 

Stranton, the vicar of, 313. 

Strother, Strothers, Strutheris, Stmthen, 

Will. 265, 266, 269, 273, 275. 
Surtes, Janet, 296. 
Ralf, 296. 



8 



» AUce, 1 17. 
Nich. 117. 



Swainiton, Swauton, Tbo. 332. 
Sw^ft, Swift, Swifte, Swyfft, Swyft, 

Rob. 93, 94. 108, 117, 118, 127, 130, 

132, 139, 160, 168, 181, 201, 206, 

216, 257. 
Swinbnnie, Swynbom, Swynbome, Chris. 

334. 

Janet, 89. 

John, 35, 99. 

Mr. 204. 

Sym, Syme, Will. 150. 



T. 



TaUboyes, Taylboy«, Ant. 293, 294. 

Tailfeir, John, 226. 

TaUer, TaUour, TaiUoor, Tailyer, Tayler, 

Taylier, Taylyer, Taylyenr, Agnes, 51. 

Alex. 71. 

Geo. 302, 303, 304. 

Isabella, 51. 

Janet, 310, 311. 

Job. 82, 50. 

Leonard, 91. 

Marg. 125. 

Nich. 82. 

Peter, 330, 331, 332. 

Tanefeld, WiU. de, 9. 
Tankerd, Tankrd, Mr. 58, 121. 
Tedcastel, Tedcastell, Hugh, 276. 

Rob. 170, 171,178. 

Teesdale, Tesedale, Tho. 27, 28. 
Tempest, Isabella, 44. 

Rob. 44. 

Temple, Edw. 79. 

Teuerd, Alex. 125. 

Thompson, Thomson, Tompson, Tobuod, 

Ag^es, 33. 

Gbaxles, 61, 62. 

Geo. 327, 328. 

John, 85, 87, 110, 175, 322. 

Rob. 100, 247, 326. 

Tho. 262, 263. 

WilL 197. 

Thoppinge, Topping, Toppinge, Toppyn, 

Toppyng, Tho. 258. 259, 260, 261, 262. 
Thorebe, Thorobye, Chris. 258, 259. 
Thwaites, Marie, 323. > 
Thweng, Sir John, 8. 
Thometon, Thornton, Joh. 25, 26. 

Mr. 333. 

Thorpe, Joh. 32. 

Tod, Todd, Todde, Tood, John, 28, 61, 

62, 99, 213, 248. 

Raif. 211, 212. 

Rob. 19, 21. 



SwalweU, Tho. 201, 202, 203, 204, 205. Tomlingson, Tho. 90. 



INDEX HOMINUM. 



351 



Tonne, Will, de le, 33. 
Towler, Towller, John, 104, 105. 
Towneshende, Rioh. 222. 
Trewhat, John, 86. 
Tremble, Henr. 262, 263. 
Trotter, Will. 230. 
Tuggell, Will. 32. 
Tunstall, Kahop, 137. 
Turner, Tumour, Rob. 251. 

Rog. 8. 

Turpyn, Turpynn, Nich. 243, 244. 
Tutye, Captain, 254. 
Tweddall, John, 97. 

Tynemouth, Sir Antony, curate of, 308, 
309. 



U. 



Underwood, Martyn, 140. 



V. 

VaTiflour, Chris. 323, 325. 
Venice, Yenis, Venys, Rog. 200. 



W. 

Wade, WiU. 8. 

WaUl, Jenkin, 140, 142. 

John, 143. 

Waker (tee Walker). 
Walby, Walbye, Geo. 93, 94. 
Walker, Waker, Geo. 820. 

Isabell, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 

223, 224, 225. 

Rich. 264, 265. 

Rob. 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 



193, 297, 298, 299, 300. 

WiU. 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 



223, 224, 225, 226. 
Wall, John, 176. 
Walles, John, 102, 103. 
Walton, Wawlton, Wawton, Waton, 

Anne, 322. 
James, 286, 287, 288, 289, 291, 

292. 
Tho. 233, 234, 286, 288, 289, 

291. 
Wapps, Eliz. 198. 
Ward, Warde, cUias Sampson, Agnes, 

59. 

Chris. 59. 

Cuthb. 204, 205, 807, 308, 327. 

Edw. 59. 

Geo. 304. 328. 

Rob. 302, 303, 304. 

wm. 26. 



Wardaai, Mr. 280. 

Wardelowe, Isabella, 28. 

Wark, Warke, Werke, Tho. 133, 134, 
153, 191. 

Watkin, Tho. 110. 

Watson, Alice, 332. 

Dean, 211. 

John, 213, 276, 277. 

Rob. 83. 

Tho. 49, 197, 198. 

cUioi Wylom, WUl. 147, 148. 

Will. 164, 165. 

77. 

Wattress, James, 320. 

Waugh, Waughe, Wawgfae, Rob. 120, 
121. 

Waules, John, 88. 

Wayinman, Tho. 172, 178. 

Wayman, Tho. 279. 

WiU. 279. 

Weld, John, 264. 

Welton, Capitain, 196. 

Mr. 113. 

Werdal, Job. de, 7. 

Werkeworth, vicarius de, 50. 

Wermouth, Mag. de, 30. 

West, Job. 26. 

Westmorland, Westmoreland, the Earl of, 
177, 209. 

my Lady, 178. 

Westwood, Nich. 50. 

Westwyk, Hugo de, 20. 

Wheitley, Agnes, 104. 

Geo. 245. 

Rob. 104. 

Tho. 189, 200. 

Whip, Janet, 103. 

Mat. 103. 

Whit, White, Whyt, Whyte, Geo. 181, 
182, 183. 

Job. 32. 

MUes, 133, 134, 152, 153, 213. 

Tho. 332. 

Widow, 188. 

Whiterasinge, Mr. 279. 

WhitfeUd, WhitfeUde, Whitfeld, Whit- 
field, WytfeUd, Ant. 246. 247. 

Chris. 176, 306, 307. 

Geo. 62. 

Hugh, 64. 

John, 77, 78. 

Tho. 223. 224, 246. 

Widow, 218. 

WiU. 175. 

. Whithed, WUl. 199. 

Whittingbam, Whityngeham, Whytynge- 
ham, Job. 26. 

Katb. 814, 315, 316. 

Tho. 25. 

WUL 314. 



352 



INDBX HOMINUM, 



Whitmor, Whitmore, Will. 880, 881, 

832 
Whitakaillfl, WUl. 81. 
Wield {$ee Wild). 
Wiggon, Alies, 209. 
Wigomiensis, Epiacopus, 81. 
Wild, Wield, Wyeld, Wyld, Wylde, 

Wyled, Janet, 67. 

Mat. 88. 

Will. 66, 67, 68. 

WilkinMn , Wilkynson, Wylkenaon, Wyl- 

kynaoD, Alice, 164, 219, 220. 
Elyn, 219, 220, 221, 224, 225, 

226. 

Geo. 86, 87, 220, 224, 225. 

John, 26. 

Lancelot, 287, 288, 

Marg. 296. 

Nich. 164. 

Rob. 219, 220, 221. 

Tho. 85. 

WUl. 321. 

Williamson, Anne, 881. 
Wilson, Agnea, 84. 

Mat. 76. 

Ralph, 108, 109. 

Ric. 84. 

Woderofe, Rob. 82. 
Wolsyngham, Rector de, 14, 16. 
Wood, Janet, 82. 

John, 826. 

Marg. 80. 



Wood. Nioh. 814. 
Wormel^, Maigeiy, 284, 285. 
Wright, Wrighte, Agnea, 27. 

John, 89. 

Rob. 808, 309. 

Rog. 98, 99. 

Tho. 113, 199. 

WiU. 169, 170, 171, 276. 

Wnldwarde, Isabella, 81. 
Wyddrington, Byngemen (Benjamin), 



100. 



£dw. 100. 
Mr. 91. 



Wylkinson (tee Wilkinson). 
Wylom, alias Watson, Will. 147. 
Wynter, Geo. 199. 
Wyther, Rob. 210. 
Wytheworth, Tho. de, 2. 



y. 

Yarfaalgh, Adam de, 8. 
Yoman, Allison, 809. 
Yong, Rob. 48. 

Will. 204. 

Yonger, Younger, Edw. 814. 

Henr. 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 



297. 



John, 140. 



York, the dean and chapter of, 58. 



INDEX LOCORUM. 



A. 



Aele, 27. 

AicUand (see Auckland). 

Ainome, 285. 

Aisleyby, 245. 

AJanton, 60. 

Aldengayt, Allergaytt, 223. 

Alne, 54. 

Alnwick, Anwiok, 60, 82. 

Alondale, 50. 

Auckland, Aukland, Awkelande, Awk- 

land, Episcopi, 14, 19, 20, 21, 25, 44, 

61, 70, 179, 200, 248, 249. 

St. Andrew's, 179, 180, 826. 

St. Helen's, 181, 182, 183, 880, 

881, 832. 

West, 49, 183, 195. 



Austenxnore, Emsought in, 283. 

B. 

Banneton. 298. 

Barwick, Barwicke, Barwik, Barwike, 

Berwick, Berwyk upon Tweed, 22, 25, 

223, 280, 255, 256, 285. 
Battersbey, Battersby, 822, 823, 324, 825, 

326. 
Beamonhill, Beaumondhill,Beaumonihill, 

293. 
Bellacis, 27, 278. 
Belsey, 200. 
Beltingham, 300, 301. 
Bemishpark, 243. 
Benfeldsyd, 204. 
Bendrig, Benridg, 200.> 
Benton, 99, 100. 
Benrepayr, 36. 
Bidel, 1. 

Biers Grein, 180. 
Bierayde, 253. 
Billingham, BUlyngbam, 27, 82, 38, 137, 

197, 198, 242, 279, 297. 
BiUyhali, aliat Billy Rawe, 241. 
Birkynsyde, 272. 
Blackheddon, 118. 
BlackweU, 828« 



Blaidon, 318. 

Blofeld, 20. 

Bolam, 68. 

Boldon, 211. 

Bolton, 136. 

Bomewold, Borne Wood, 811. 

Bradley Hall, 89, 229, 321. 

Brancepath, Brancepeith, Branoepeth, 
Brancepith, Bianspeith, Bnuuq^otha 
Brauncepeth, 2, 137, 140, 141, 177, 
178, 203, 241, 242, 380. 

Branton, 254. 

Bristolle, eoclesia S. AugoBtini de, 31^ 

Britley a^ias Qreincroift, 60. 

Broomehill, the, 327. 

Bumopsyde, 270. 

Bumton, 81. 

Burrowbridg, 178, 

Butterwik, Butterwike, 190, 191, 

Byrtley, 60. 

Byrtmansyd, near Darwen, 267« 



0. 



Galdcoat, Gauldootts, 68, 69. 

CSambridge, 159« 

Oaptheton, 71, 72. 

GarleU, 254, 255. 

Garterthome, 182. 

Cauld Rowley, 207. 

Chester, Ghestre in the Street, 53, 1,00, 

102, 112, 120, 198. 
Ghildon, Shildon, 180. 
Ghillingham, 322, 324, 825, 826, 334. 
Chirton, 90, 91. 
Clarkinwell, 223. 
ClaypoU, CUypoUe, 249, 250. 
Cleveland, 286. 
Cockerton, 284. 
Cowpon, 32. 
Crake, the, 42. 
Croft, 285. 
Croxdaill, 242. 



D. 



Dageill, 182. 
2 A 



354 



INDEX LOOOBUM. 



Dilton in Valle, SO. 

Darlington^ Darneton, Dwnton, 128, 178, 
187, 224, 284, 298, 828, 329. 

Denton, 125. 

DinadaiU, 114. 

Dttffidd, 179. 

Dunaton, 820. 

Durham, 4, 6, 7, 9, ll, 2«, 484 97, 96, 
100, 101, 108, 181, 182, 136, 187, 188, 
189, 141, 142, 143, 144, 160, 161, 168, 
164, 165, 170, 172, 174, 206, 207,208, 
215, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 228, 
224, 225, 226, 244, 246, 276, 279, 287, 
295, 296, 810, 814, 816, 822, 882. 

— the ancaridge, or ankeridge, in, 
277, 295, 296. 

the Balye, 98, 220. 

the cathedral church of, 2, 7, 11, 



27, 80, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 188, 186, 
187, 138, 139, 14e, 141, 144, 145, 146, 
147, 148,149, 150, 151, 152, 158,154, 
155, 156, 157, 159, 160, 161, 168, 164, 
165, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 178, 174, 
175, 215, 216, 244, 257. 

the chapel of St. Andrew on El- 



vet bridge, in, 26, 84. 

the chapel of St. Maiy Magdalen, 



in, 147. 

dapath, daypath, in, 64, 296. 

the oonsifltory of, 95,. Ill, 118^. 

^— CitMgait, in, 280. 

Elvet, ElTeth, in, 28, 84, 86, 169, 



177, 205, 276, 277, 279, 280,* 296, 

EWei bridge, in, 106. 

Framwelgait, Framwelgate, in. 



2, 278. 



882. 



Framwelgate bridge, in, 280, 

the Galil^, in, 279. 

Gilligait, GHlUgatt, GKllTgalt, in, 

64, 109, 166, 168, 279. 

the Place Grein, in, 154, 162, 



244. 



the South Baly, in, 147, 209. 

St. GUee'B, in, 182,188, 166, 167, 

168, 169. 

St. Maigaret^s, in, 26, 83, 172, 



173, 174, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 
281. 

St. Oswaldli, in, 26, 28, 84, 35, 



159, 166, 169, 170, 171, 177, 178, 
276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 295, 
296. 

St. Oswald^s well, in, 277. 

St. Nicholas*, in, 51, 65, 101, 



108, 163, 164, 166. 
Ebchester, Ebchestre, 48, 49, 202, 208, 



204, 289, 240, 266, 267, 270, 271, 
272. 

the Lawe, near, 288. 



Edeedabiig, Edyedsbridge, 116, 266, 272. 
Edlingham, Edlyngeham, 27, 84, 186. 
Eggeleecli^ EggiieUH^ EggiKliffo, 20, 

245. 
^den, Eldon, 179, 180, 826. 
Ellewyk, Elwick, 20, 187. 
ElBenewyr, nigh Denmazke, 284. 
Eniaonght^ in Auatenmore, 288. 
Eepleywod, 9. 
EiBh, 23. 

Eohes, le, juxta Wol^yngliam, 228. 
Eatmerington, 85. 

Evenwod, Evenwode, Evenwood, 7, 8« 9. 
Eynaham, 56. 
Eyton, in Plkeringe Lyth, 56, 57. 



F. 



FamefeUd, Fem^feiW, FeanefoM, 249, 

250. 
Fawnes, le, 71. 
Fekon, 212, 251. 
FinchaU, 36. 
FozUm, 111. 



a. 



Gainford, Qainfarth, Ghinforde, Gkyne- 

furth, 59, 104, 205. 
Gatiflhed, 69, 80, 254. 
Ghwforth, 89. 
Qrwnoraff, 290, 
Gieineoroit {ne Briti«^). 



H. 



Harbome, Hartbom, Hartburne, 96, 97, 

211, 212. 
Harperley, Harperly, 58. 
Hart, Hert, 85, 159. 
HarUepoill, 197. 
Haughton, 298. 
Hawtweflsell, 301. 
Headlham, 105. 
Heddon-on-the-Wall, 313.. 
Hedley, near Lamesley, 102. 
Heighington, 159, 199.. 
Hesilden, 26. 

Hexham, 26» 49, 50, 99, 287. 
Hexamshier, 62. 

Hoghton, Houghton, 10, 83^ 106. 
Hollinghall, 250. 
Holston, 168. 
Horseley, Horale, 221, 225. 



INDSX I^QCOBUIC 



S5$ 



HuUerbush, 290. 

Hunstanworth, Huluitonworth, 62, 68. 

Hunwioke, 249. 

Hurworth, 302, 303, 304. 

« 

K. 

KeUowe, 20. 

Eirke Leventon, 255, 256. 
Eirkle, Eirkley, 79, 80. 
Eypier, 9. 

X. 

Lamesley, 102, 206. 

Lameton, 125. 

Lamidon, 217. 

Lanam, 250. 

Lanchester, Langcestre, Langdhopfcre, 20, 

28, 44, 199, 270, 286, 287, 288, 289, 

290, 291, 292. 
— — — — the Espeis near, 274.. 
Langley, Langly, 810, 811, 312. 
Lang Newton («ee Long Newton). 
Langton, Lankton, 5S, 104, 105. 
London, 218, 219, 228. 
Longhorsley, 333. 
Long Newton 194, 195, 196) 197. 
LyddisdaiU, 271. 



M. 



Maner House, 290, ^1. 

Medemesley, Medomsley, 28, 202', 20^, 

204, 252, 253, 265, 266, 268, 269, 

278, 827. 
^— the Lawe neari, 23j6. 
Meirfen, Meirsfein, 86, 87. . 
Merington, Merrington, Meryngton, 61, 

212, 214, 215. 
■' Bst, 85. 
Merton, aula de, in Oxon, 6. 
Middelham» IkGddleham, Episoopi, 2,7, 

11, 44. 
Myddelton^ South, 97. 
Mitford, Mitfourth, Mydfiur<ihe, Mytford, 

Mytforde, Mytfourth, Mytforth,98, 94, 

95, 200, 201. 
Moorton, Morton, 80, 52. 
Morpeith, Morpeth, 60, 89, 251, 828, 

824, 833. 
Muggleswick, Muggleswike, Muggles- 

wyk, Muglesworth, 116, 287, 807. 
Mylbome Grange, 54. 



N. 



Netherwetton, 333. 
Neuton in Qlendale, 25, 32. 
Newborn, Newbome, Newbume, Newe- 
boroe, 92, 217, 218. 



Newcastel, Newcastell, Nevoas^,' Neito 
Castie upon Tyne, 7, 23, 66, 72, 78, 
75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 88, 85, B% 
87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 95, 98, 102, 
103, 121, 210, 2ir, 218, fi2Q» 224, 
226, 251, 252, 281, 282, 283, 284, 
813, 814, 316, 818, 819^ 821 (m 
Novum Cafltirum). 

— — Balygait near the Castle Moote, 
in, 282. 

the Big Market in, 92. 

t m .. I Deaton ohair in, 283. 

GaUogait in, 89, 814. 

. Mi . ■ the New Yaito ij^ 88. 

■ 1 I ■ - 1 the Over Dein Brig in, 83» 

1 ^^ the SandhiU in, 123, 821. 

M - • ■■ ! St. Andrew's in, 73, 74, 75. 

AJtthaUows church in, 4,6, 79, 



224. 

St. John^B in, IM, 117. 

St. Nicholas' in,. 78, liT. 

the Syde in, 283. 

Newkton, 63. 

Newton on the Mose, &K 

None Ryding, 201. 

Norhom, 48, 285. 

Norton, 232. 

Novum Gastrum supetr Tynam, 25, 44, 

45 (<66 Newcastle). 
Nov! Gastri, domus Oarmelitarum, 6, 7, 



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70. 



ecclesia B. Nicholai, 7. 
ecclesia S. Johannis, 49. 
ecclesia Onmium Sanetaram, 4>8, 



Novum Monasterium juxta Morpetii, 24. 

O. 

Osworth, 310, 311. 
Ovingham, 116, 117, 29». 
Ownby, 255. 

Pi 

Parsonbiers, in Wardall, 192. 

Perth, 2. 

Pigden, Pigdon,94. 

Pittington, Pyttington, 175, 176. 

Ponteland, Pontyland, 82, 94, 95. 



R. 



Raby, 237. 

Bainton, West, 106. 

Ravenswath, 2. 

Reyton (tee Ryton). 

Riddesdall, Riddysdal, Ryddall, Ryddis- 

dall, Ryddis-dalle, Ryddysdalle, 37, 

38, 39, 41, 42. 
Riton (see Ryton). 



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Both«l<7, 96. 

Rndbye, 2S4. 

Byllye, 811. 

Bypon, 82. 

Byton, Reyton, RHoii» 60, 60, 264, 818, 

821. 
Rytontwood^, 115. 



8. 



Sftddbniy, 206* 

Sanltwiok, SftoUwik, Sawthilu, 259, 260, 

268. 
Stdgefeild, SedgeiMd, SodgeAelde, Sedg* 

feild, S«dgfeilde, Sedgfidd, Sedgflelde, 

8«gefleld, Seggefdde, SeidgoAald, 20, 

lOi, 110, 111, 188, 184, 185, 186, 187, 

188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 198,297,298, 

299, 800. 
Sehun, 118, 199. 
Sheills, the, 112. 
Sherbom, 175. 

HoTue, 172. 

ShUdon («00 Childon). 

ShilYington, 71. 

Sbotl^, Shotieye, 265, 267, 270, 278. 

ShoUon, 259, 260, 261, 268. 

Shyncklyffe, 171, 287. 

Skailby, Skulbye, Skftikby, Skalbye, 254, 

256. 
SkiimiDghain, 298. 
SUlie, 52. 
SledmedowM, 63. 
flmebermouth, 42. 
Sonthkirk, Sowthkirk, 179. 
Sonthahirbum, 2. 
Stagsbawe Banoke, 286. 
Stanhop, 281. 
Staindiop, Standit^, Standiope, 181, 189, 

144. 
Staington, Stanington, Stannington, 258 > 

260, 261, 262, 263. 
SteUling, Styllynge, 104. 
St. Leonard's Hospital, 200. 
Stockton, Stoketon, Stokton, 5, 6, 7, 8, 

194, 198, 232, 288, 247. 
Stranton, 312, 313. 
Snyne in Holdemes, 56. 
Symmonbum, 9. 



T. 



Teisdaill forest, 811. 

Thorneley, 229, 

Throckley, Thro«kly, Thiokeley, Thiokle, 

82, 92, 313, 334. 
Tofthill, 182. 



Topelil^ 824. 

Tnddo, 242. 

Twedmonth, 256, 257» 

TweBeU,80. 

Tyndale, Tyndall, Tyndalle, 8, 87, 88, 

89, 41, 42, 60. 
T^nemonth, Tynmouth, 50, 808, 809. 



Untbanke, 266. 



Yiens, 1. 



U, 



V. 



w. 






Wallyngton, 81. 

Walahend, 99. 

WarrelhiU. WbarreUbill near Dartiam, 

172, 278. 
Weannoutb, Bishop, 23. 

Monk, 198, 199. 

Wederall, the cell of, 9. 

WerdaU, foresto de, 21. 

Werkeworth, 50. 

Wermoath Monacoram, 198. 

Weshington, 120, 287. 

Whiokham, 320. 

Whitbame, Whitbom«, Whitburn, 304, 

305, 308, 809. 
WhittonsUU, Whitlynstaw, 208, 288. 
Whitworth, 28, 199. 
Willimontaike, 801. 
Windlington-Brth, 98. 
Winlerton, 88, 89. 
Winston, 5. . 
Witton, Wytton, 27, 28, 29, 86, 37, 97. 

Gilbert, 169, 160, 174, 175. 

upon the Weir, 249, 250. 

Wolsingham, Wol^yngham, 14, 16, 17, 

228, 229, 230, 231, 287, 805, 306, 

807, 320, 321. 
Wolston, WolTeston, 27, 82, 198. 
Woodheid, the, 205. 
Woodsyd, the, 237. 
Wylom, 99. 
Wyndleston, 179, 180. 
Wyndlington, 92. 



y. 



Yarum, 82. 

York, Yorke, 2, 49, 57, 58, 182, 245, 

249, 315. 
■ Abbey of St. Mary*s of, 9. 



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